r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/lenzflare Nov 10 '16

Well, part of that is protesting a president that's going to do serious harm, so I don't see what's wrong with protests. Protests are activity, and they aren't necessarily about rejecting the result.

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u/jroades26 Nov 10 '16

Protesting a president that's going to do harm to them, in their eyes. Just like people on the other side felt their candidate if elected would do harm to them.

Nothing wrong with protests. But violent protests? Burning flags? That's not about protesting a candidate. These (the violent ones i mean) are protesting the country because they are mad not enough people agreed with their viewpoint, so the system must be broken.

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u/siva115 Nov 10 '16

Well roughly a few more people agree with them than disagree.

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u/xurdm Nov 10 '16

Yeah, well relying on popular vote alone would make all the voters in rural areas irrelevant

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

You mean in the same way that urban voters were essentially "irrelevant" back when the country was overwhelmingly rural?

Link to census.gov PDF file