No Kings: Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today

Sierra Madre nestles against fire-scarred hills that starkly remind joyous protestors there's a lot of serious stuff happening in our world that we can do little to nothing to control. That wildfire, for example, is making its way through the settlement process involving insurers, the State of California, and the electric company.

People gathered in what passes for a zocalo had their minds focused on fun and fealty to no king, no monarch, no royal horse's ass(es). A noisy crowd rattling sticks and cardboard signs, shouting joyously across the street to friends, when a farmworker conjunto launches into a rhymic cumbia the crowd shifts away from the street and toward the portable stage.

With music, all's right with the world. For now. Voting yes on Proposition 50, the counter-gerrymandering gerrymander, and mustering all the GOTV energy for the midterms, there's the play by which to  capture the conscience of the antimonarchists among us. That looks like almost all of us.

 

It takes a worried man, to sing a worried song, "Oh say, can you see?"