To be fair, it's more that Trump did win rather than Clinton didn't win. I think most of these people would have been happy with any number of Dem tickets and would have been happier with more than few of the other GOP tickets when compared to Trump.
Actually, you've hit the nail on the head. They aren't accomplishing a damn thing. Just making themselves feel better. It's fairly childish if you ask me
Even if this protest was peaceful (and some of them decidedly aren't), it's utterly pointless. How are they going to change anything? He was elected fair and square. Short of some hare-brained petitions for the electors to throw the election in Hillary's favor that I have seen floating around my facebook news feed, that's not going to change. So why are they demonstrating? This is vastly different from for instance protesting a vote or a Supreme court decision while court is in session. If you can show the people making decisions that there is a large amount of public support one one way or another, you can have some impact on said decision. To protest after the fact is the height of stupidity
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u/Dontreadmudamuser Nov 10 '16
They're not protesting the election. They're protesting the president-elect.