Current Protests

[GMDino]

I posted this about 24 hours ago:

Quote:Re: People marching to protest Trump's election.


I am on record: Protests are fine and good. Destruction and violence are not.



I can understand their frustration as they see a man who may now try to roll back any social gains groups like gays and others have gotten over the last 20 years. See while many were voting for jobs and tax breaks that comes with the rest of the GOP platform which includes eliminating insurance for 20 million people, stopping gays from marrying each other and rolling back regulations that have cleaned up our air and water over the last *40* years.



As to the chanting and cursing: They are protesting someone who calls anyone who dislikes anything about him "losers", "morons", etc. Even people like an actual war hero in John McCain. If he can't take it he shouldn't deal it out. Right?


It's been less than 48 hours. People's emotions are still raw. Had Clinton won I imagine my page would be filled with people screaming she should be in jail, it was rigged, etc.


This was a mean, ugly campaign on almost all levels. People who lost are not going to get over it easily or quickly. But the MUST get over it.


This is the result we have.


We will see the results of it over the next four years.


Those of you who feel this election reflected "god's will" should be praying for peace rather than also name calling and and denigrating the other side because of their choice of protest.


Edit: I personally am at peace with all of this. I said my piece, presented my evidence and the election did not go the way I thought was best for the country.


But it's as if a weight has been lifted from me.


There is nothing else I can do. There is nothing else for me TO do.

Now today:


People who want to block roads, destroy property, attack others are not helping nor are they justified at all.


Protests have happened for the last two presidents even during their inauguration.


Be peaceful. Be lawful.


But you know what ELSE doesn't help?


Paranoid tweets from a president elect about professional protesters being incited by the media.  






That is not "unifying".  That feeds into the honest protesters fears about the man who will lead this country for four years at least.


You see the second tweet above it nine hours later?  Which President are we going to get?