We've all seen the massive crowds of people filling (to the point of spilling) central London in protest of Trump's arrival. Despite seeming to be the most hated person in the world, and most mainstream media platforms making him out to be as such we've forgotten a number of fundamentally important things. Our ignorance of the nature of our political system is certainly one, the centres of decision making, the inner circles and tight corridors of power and people we get to elect often have as much in common as the desert nomads' culture have with the indigenous people of the arctic.
Our system is riddled with ambiguous inconsistencies, at all conceivable levels, appearing stable to the commoner, but spoiled on the inside. It's about time we realized that since the public has generationally deserted political matters at the hands of shady bureaucrats whose agendas are unknown, the consequences for which are an unfortunately all-encompassing reality that we ought to live with. The expression Londoners were lashing out appropriately personifies a statement inscripted on the Cyrus cylinder " An incompetent person was installed to exercise lordship over his country".
From the point of hopeless conception, it seems as though every four to eight years that a new leaders comes to power, bearing the disastrous mistakes of his predecessors, presumably with some traces of conscience to endeavour reform, a new breed of socio-economic crisis materializes, and as the usual just goes, the public, following symptomatic episodes of disillusionment and frustration, channels its outrage towards the new leader naively presumed to be the culprit. In doing so, showcasing an extreme lack of understanding of the nature of the political system, and instead of addressing the structure as previously implicated, the outrage, although utterly justifiable, is directed towards the system's cyclical scapegoats aka presidents.
Despite being brought (numerous times) to the ugly state of knowing the hard way, the public's reactions has but varied a little from the usual course of complicity, perhaps a good indicator of tangible change on the horizon. In the mean time, lets rewind, the main thing that seems to have fertilised Londeners' anti-Trump rally revolves around the recent immigration policy where it's been widely reported that federal authorities had "lost track" of approximately 1000 children, raising concerns that authorities may have been separating parents from their children in an outrageous violation of human rights, not the rarest of its kind, which gave birth to yet another popular hashtage #Wherearethechildren circulating on social media. In fact the news went mainstream when president Trump himself blamed the democrats for the policy, describing it "a horrible law" even though his administration was the one to issue the policy, a contradiction so extraordinary it makes one wonder if both parties were in collusion.
