No King’s, No Tyrants protest just another “hate fest” in a Town with a hate problem
Belmont MA.
A few hundred protesters gathered to express their hate of the United States President on Saturday June 14th, 2025 in front of the First Church in Belmont. The name of the protest “No Kings, No Tyrants” is just more proof their message is based on hate. Oddly, the local print paper said the protest was peaceful. Apparently, signs that bully and body shame the President and refer to him as a tyrant are considered peaceful. Unusual to equate hate speech with peace but that is how they reported it.
The most disturbing thing about the protest was the presence of children. How many times do we hear “hate” is learned but where do the children learn this hate. Go to one of these protests or “Free Palestine” protests and you will have your answer. You might think there is a mental illness to this movement and that seems to be understood by a traditional base in the Democratic party who are finally standing up to the 10-13% of their party responsible for the rhetoric and violence.
Leaders such as Democrat US Senator Amy Klobuchar calling for her peers to mitigate the “inflammatory rhetoric” and Democratic US Senator John Fetterman calling out progressives “crazy rhetoric” against the US Army 250th parade. Mass Congressman, Seth Moulton who dared to question the safety issue of allowing boys in girls sports and Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennocchi, calling out the hate by progressives against any one friend or foe that deviates at all from their extreme agenda. Most revealing was the confession made by a former progressive, Sabrina Joy Stevens, that her mental health improved when she left her ideological tribe… Boston Globe, 6-11-25 “Being a progressive activist made me miserable”
My anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms were at their worst when I was most invested in the left-wing ideology, I’d built my professional and social life around. That all changed in late 2020, when I quit my job after months of growing disillusionment. I “graduated” from therapy at that point, and over the following years, my mental health kept improving, despite fluctuating income and the eventual loss of formerly close connections. As my political views and social networks shifted, my emotional trajectory tracked with longstanding research showing that the further left a person’s political views lean, the more likely they are to be diagnosed with certain kinds of mental or emotional distress.
Just last week a “Stand up to Jewish Hate” sign at the Beth El Temple in Belmont was vandalized and the words “and genocide” were added to it. The temple has been a frequent target of antisemite hate. Nearby, a Brookline Kosher Deli had a brick thrown through its window with the words “Free Palestine” written on it. Is it a coincidence that Belmont has a vocal “Free Palestine” movement.
In Belmont… it’s not unusual for those who say they are welcoming and against hate, to actually be the provocateurs of hate. In their minds, and by living in an echo chamber that punishes any deviation of thought, they are blinded to what they are actually saying and doing. They decide what is and isn’t hate. It is good to see some influential Democrats pushing back. Will that be enough?