It’s Time for a Broad National Civic Uprising and a Lot of Pot Banging

Pot-banging, is a worldwide method of expressing dissent by loudly banging pots, pans, other kitchen utensils, often to protest government actions, economic crises, or social injustices.

Iceland Jailed Its Bankers, We Elected Their Enabler

What Real Accountability Looks Like

In Iceland, bankers were led out of courtrooms in handcuffs. In the U.S., they got promoted—and their biggest enabler got the White House.

Reykjavik, 2008. Thousands of Icelanders fill the streets armed with pots and pans, banging cookware so loud the government couldn't function. The prime minister resigns in shame. Bankers get handcuffed. The country chooses justice over comfort.

America. Wall Street gets bailouts, bonuses, and a presidential pardon for all future crimes. The criminals become consultants. Their political enablers get re-elected. And in 2025, the king of all grifters sits back in the Oval Office while his coup plotters walk free.

Pots and Pans in America: What if We Actually Tried it?

Here's the question that should keep every representative awake at night: What if Americans did what Icelanders did?

Picture this: Coordinated protests outside all 435 House offices and 100 Senate offices. Not one-day symbolic actions, but sustained pots-and-pans noise that makes governance impossible until resignations happen. Week after week of deafening accountability, demanding that representatives step down for enabling fascism, corruption, ecological collapse, supporting a convicted felon, a rapist and a sex trafficking pedophile.

It’s time for a broad national civic uprising

What is occurring now is not typical politics. We are witnessing an unprecedented attack on the core institutions of our civic life, institutions that have long served as the backbone of our democracy and to which we should all pledge allegiance — whether Democrat, independent, or Republican.

Reminds one of Boss Tweed the notorious Senator from New York. He was convicted of stealing millions ((equivalent to $5 billion in 2024) from taxpayers by political corruption (sound familiar). He died in the Ludlow Street jail in New York.

As we observe these alarming trends daily, orchestrated by Trump and his band of misfits it becomes increasingly clear that it’s time for us to quit whining about this buffoon in social media posts and podcasts and actually start a broad civic uprising, a call to action, a coordinated mass movement that transcends partisan lines. A "Pots and Pans Revolution." This is what America needs right now.

Dennis Ketterman

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Meade

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