No Accountability Day (Counting Lies)

No Accountability Day (Counting Lies)

Lately I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Watching Congress talk but never leap
They say protect democracy
But they vote for deals that chain the free

Politicians love the stage
Playing outrage for a wage
It’s not Trump they fear, it’s change
While the people take the blame

They point the crown at one man’s head
But the real kings sit in red and lead
Paper laws, empty oaths instead
While liberty bleeds out unsaid

No Kings Day or No Accountability Day
They’re shouting names but truth fades away
We the people stand while they just play
Oh, can’t you see the game they stage

Bureaucrats write rules they hide
While the voice of the voter’s tied
Trump’s not the crown they claim
It’s Congress that forgot its name

They talk of peace, they sell the war
Promise change, then lock the door
From D.C. floors to marble halls
We built them up, they dropped the call

No Kings Day or No Accountability Day
You march the streets, they walk away
The power’s ours if we reclaim
Our voice, our right, our flame

Oh, say can you see who rules the stage
Not a king but a system caged
Red and blue both bleed the same
When truth is lost to fame

No Kings Day or No Accountability Day
We shout for change, they just delay
The Republic’s ours, not theirs to sway
So stand, GoRight, light the way

No Kings Day or No Accountability Day?

#GoRight with Peter R Boykin

As Americans fill the streets today for what organizers are calling No Kings Day, the message sounds noble, a call to defend "democracy" (we are a constitutional Republic) from tyranny. But somewhere between the signs and slogans, the truth gets lost. Because Donald Trump isn’t trying to be a king, and he isn’t the problem.

The real threat to our republic isn’t in the Oval Office; it’s in the halls of Congress and the state legislatures where our so-called *representatives* have stopped representing anyone but themselves. For years, politicians from both parties have wasted time grandstanding instead of governing. They shout “democracy is in danger” while voting to expand surveillance, sell out to corporate donors, and rubber-stamp bloated budgets that serve everyone but the citizen.

While protesters chant against one man, the machinery of Washington quietly hums along. Bureaucrats write laws they never voted on, unelected regulators dictate your choices, and congressional leaders trade away liberty for headlines. That’s not monarchy, that’s neglect. And neglect, left unchecked, breeds the same kind of power people think they’re marching against.

Trump’s presidency may be loud, brash, and disruptive, but it’s also revealing. It’s showing how fragile the republic becomes when representatives stop defending their oath and start defending their careers. The “No Kings” movement would have more weight if it demanded accountability from those hundreds of lawmakers who’ve turned oversight into theater.

No king can rule a free people. But a complacent Congress can. That’s the real story today, not a march against a man, but a reckoning with a system that forgot who it serves.