Listening to President Trump's Inaugural Address, there are reasons to be hopeful: renovating America's crippling infrastructure and cutting back on outsourcing are a couple of policies all Americans can benefit from.

Now that Trump is in office, (and if you've just woke up from a two-year coma, welcome to real life) some concerned citizens from the public are releasing their propositions for change through inferno demonstrations and wrecking objects deemed as breakable.

Of course, no American should accept to be told to "shut up" or "get over it;" after all, if the Founding Fathers were told by King George to "shut up" and "get over it" and Thomas Paine among all others apologetically replied, "Yes your majesty, please don't give me liberty, I will accept taxation without representation happily and pledge my allegiance to the crown," we could all be under royal authority (although we wouldn't have to worry about a Trump presidency and the chaos it's causing--but it's cool, I like my diversity).

Anyway, commanding Americans to silence their opinions is a direct violation of citizenship rights. The reason why the public is not its own branch of government is because the public is supposed to check that every branch is doing their job properly. The people applaud when things go well and criticize when things go poor. Just like in the Obama administration, the same has to be done in Trump's.

When Trump's team does well, he should be applauded, but when things go sour, burning limousines and shattering windows will not make things change. President Obama made it clear in his farewell address that the best way to make real change is to get involved in the political process. If you have a bad kidney, setting a random car on fire isn't going to make your kidney better (actually it might make it worse with all the twisting and running you have to dealing with a flaming car). Anyway, the only way to fix your kidney is to get someone to dive into your kidney and fix the problem where it was created by getting the sucker right out of there.

Government is similar. The best way to fix problems in government is to get involved in government itself--not set things on fire or smash random objects with a tire iron. Join a political club, volunteer for a campaign, run for office, become an informed citizen, attend a rally (not a riot--there's a difference), anything that can make real change without causing thousands of dollars in property damage or injuring/killing innocent civilians.

Real change will probably take time--a lot of time. The next four years remain to be seen.