Whatever Happened To Peaceful Protest?

 I saw today that people are using Molotov cocktails and have shot at Tesla property.  Apparently they are incensed that Elon Musk, who is a major shareholder in the company is doing work on behalf of the US Government.  Since when is this acceptable?  If you have a grievance surely you write or email and complain, grab a placard and join a peaceful demonstration and do all of your protesting within the law.   

Your case might be justified in your own mind but to make it weaponised is crazy, do any of you thik that you could actually cause harm to other citizens?  Do people not think out their actions?  Not that we are allowed weapons or Molotov cocktails here in the UK but on what planet do these people exist?  It surely isn't adult, grown up, behaviour is it?  Protest if you must but don't put the safety of other at risk nor destroy people's livelihoods etc.

We had a riot many years ago where a number of people lost their jobs as a large shop was burnt down.  Do they not care about others?  Is it acceptable?  OK so those caught had the book thrown at them and rightly so.  Some where sons and daughters of very well to do families but that didn't help them escape a stay in prison.

So, why do people get enraged about what's going on?  From the little I see, the DOGE outfit have uncovered corruption, maladministration, jobs for the boys, money laundering across the world and other good works (sarc).  So do people believe that these excesses, spending tax payer dollars to shady individuals and countries are good value to the US Tax paying public?  I suppose if you were a recipient you'd be a bit upset that the gravy train had stopped.  But it doesn't make sense.  Is it that the quantum of the problem has been exposed, the curtain pulled down on the system?  IS it the shock and therefore the denial stage they are going through?

If you are familiar with Kubler Ross you might see some sort of pattern here in the grief cycle.  We often used this when we were making major corporate changes and it was very much how things would go.  Not everyone is affected in the same way.  You can also use this in terms of illness too - I refer to it a number of times with my cancer journey.

I wonder if the world has turned upside down for them and they are in the denial stage at the moment?  Who enjoys being wrong?  Their anger is making them not think through the consequences of their actions.  Their whole world and ideals have been turned upside down and maybe there's that.  It reminds me of the comedy sketch where this line was used:

The sudden realization that you might in fact be on the wrong side of history.  Is that what is causing this stupidity of action, fighting a rear guard against common sense which appears to have gone on its vacation for a good few years and may, only slowly, be returning? 

Whatever drives people to make bad decisions I have no idea.  The medicine isn't going down to well in the UK either as protesters do ever dafter things.  The general public seem hell bent on getting involved in the distraction that is Trump's State Visit and wanting to prolong a war that's taking countless lives.  I just don't get it.  Any rational person should have stopped all of this but we don't do rational rather the opposite, we shut down the world for a cold and now staring huge financial meltdown in the near future blame something else other than our own leader's incompetence and downright cowardice not to mention the depth of corruption that has underscored it.  

Look where the money goes.  Does it improve the lot of the citizen?  Do the institutions getting that money improve or become fit for purpose or do the just bloat out and provide a further enlarged service with more people employed than ever and less people treated than ever?

These things cannot be solved without some heavy drastic action.  It's the sort of stuff my colleagues and I used to do we can see the problems but politicians only want to throw money without result at it.  Throwing good money after bad doesn't sort it out, people get angry and don't like the change that is needed either.  The general level of ignorance and belief in the propaganda of our public service is surprising considering how nothing works like it should.  People resist the thing that would save their institutions because they don't like change and let's take for example the health service, would not want to see it privately run and yet some of the very best are privately run and you only need to look to the near continent to see this.  Why do we have health tourists now going outside the UK?  

Anyway, let's hope the liberals finally come to their senses.  I imagine there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the Spring Statement arrives and we find out how much more of our money the government are coming for.  When it rips out money from your pocket and your wallet you tend to then arrive at the right conclusion and smell the coffee all at once.