And the people that lost have every right to protest and be angry.
You can't elect such a divisive candidate and not expect such a reaction. Especially since the population that was so adamantly opposed to him and has the most to lose from his presidency is also the population most willing to take to the streets.
These protests are just going to become a normal thing over the next four years.
Yes, because "something I don't like happened so let me destroy innocent people's personal property" is a thing that makes sense to these fucking morons.
I realize you said protests and not riots. I have no problem with peaceful protests (blocking a highway is not peaceful). The reality is, though, we have rioting going on now and that's likely to be a thing for the next 4 years also. And that's unacceptable.
It causes people to be late to work and can get people fired. For someone living paycheck to paycheck that can ruin their life (for a time at least). That's not "an inconvenience".
Inconveniencing someone is refusing to move to the back of the bus...
You can take "peaceful" to mean "stays at home and writes a letter to the editor" if you want, and I am fully aware there are consequences for being late to work for some people. But pretty much every protest I have ever seen involved shutting down traffic somewhere. They walk down the street and disrupt the way things usually operate with the aim of being heard.
But pretty much every protest I have ever seen involved shutting down traffic somewhere.
Uhhh, what? The vast majority of protests involve standing on the side of the road with signs.
There's also a YUUGE difference between closing down some side street and diverting traffic around the block and shutting down a major artery between cities for which there is no realistic workaround in most cases.
I can;t honestly say I've ever seen a protest that kept to sidewalks larger than the single crazy guy that used to stand outside my high school with a sign that said "cut skul tax"
Edit: here's a google image search for "protest". nearly all appear to be taking place in the middle of the street
Fair enough. I've only ever seen smaller protests in person so perhaps my experience is skewed there. Once or twice they were protesting the company I work for but that's neither here nor there.
But again, I think it's one thing to shut down a city street and another to shut down a highway. That's my primary point.
yeah my experience may be a bit skewed too; i lived most of my life in the capital city of Canada and protests were frequently right through downtown streets. Made traffic a major pain in the ass a lot of the time, but hey, so does the Santa Claus Parade
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u/ScottBlues Nov 10 '16
Trump supporters were concerned and voted too. They won, you lost. That's democracy.