These "protesters" are either anarchists or people that have gotten used to being told their opinions are the only valid opinions. See college campus speeches.

They can not even take the time to understand the policies of the current administration. (Obama deports 2 - 3 million and no one cares. Trump says 2 million and the world ends.)

Walking to a polling place takes so much time and energy (and bail money) than smashing car windshields over who got elected, absent your vote.

Link to that:

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/driver-s-windshield-smashed-during-protest/350934129

The protestors don't want to vote. They don't want a democracy in which people who might vote differently from them have a say. They want to impost their will on others - and be in charge of the resulting system. This isn't a protest, it's civil unrest, but lazy civil unrest. These protestor don't want to risk getting shot or arrested for treason, they want to overthrow the system without risk.

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Most of the protests are being organized by a coalition of pro-Communist groups called International ANSWER. These groups receive funding from Cuba and North Korea, among others. They pay people to protest and incite violence. They have been successful at getting their operatives identified and interviewed on camera as "concerned citizens", with their affiliation remaining concealed from the viewer. Zerohedge had an extensive article on it yesterday. I'd post a link but I can't get to Zerohedge at work.

To not vote and then to take to the streets complain about who got elected -- well, that's the height of asshole-titlement, and frankly, maybe your protest is about something other than who got elected.

Oh, come on. I agree about the not-voting part, but public protest is a time-honored and Constitutionally protected tradition.

The kids in Portland were a bag of assholes, as far as I can tell, but that doesn't invalidate protest. In fact, the modern tea party wouldn't exist without public protest. And the notion (not your notion, but I've seen it mentioned) that somehow these thousands of protesters are being paid to do so is as risible as the notion that the 2009 tea party marchers on Washington were being paid.

Dear Kevin,
Mobs are controlled by a select few that are paid to incite lawlessness. You know this and refuse to acknowledge it. Why?

Should it not be a crime for a party, such as the DNC, to pay someone to disrupt our political rallies? If not,why?

Is it not important to be told that buses are busing in protesters (if they are) and to be told who is paying for those buses, water, food, etc.? If not, why?

As (I think) Suitcase says in the Jesse Stone "The truth is out there ...".

"public protest is a time-honored and Constitutionally protected tradition. "

As is voting.

Sadly for Mrs. Bill Clinton, tens of millions of Americans refused to even mark a mail-in ballot for her.

And that speaks volumes about why she lost.

Good thing these guys are "peaceful".

Portland anti-Trump rioters attack pregnant woman with a baseball bat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJkjLoZuxbQ

Mobs are controlled by a select few that are paid to incite lawlessness. You know this and refuse to acknowledge it. Why?

Because I don't know it to be true.

Regardless of the behavior of a "select few" in a mob, the "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is an explicitly stated Constitutional right.

That goes for 2A supporters, PETA supporters, abortion supporters, anti-abortion supporters, tea party rallies, anti-Trump rallies, everyone.

Key word there is "peaceably", Kevin.

Still, watching millennials who were too lazy to vote now trashing their own blue town is hilarious!

Or did Portland somehow turn from blue to red and nobody else noticed?

A lawful, scheduled, clean election of government officials is the envy of human history.

To "protest" such a thing —whether or not you went to the polls yourself, and I'll never believe that most of these foaming idiots ever did— it the behavior of primitive, interpersonally-undercooked animals. To be so unconcerned with others, to be so surprised at their expression of their beliefs, is not the behavior of a compassionate adult mind.

Key word there is "peaceably", Kevin.

Agreed, which is why I quoted the Constitution.

Still, watching millennials who were too lazy to vote now trashing their own blue town is hilarious!

I agree (though many of them seemed to be post-millennials) — how dumb do you have to be to march on the place that actually voted for your candidate, or against your anti-candidate?

Portland is a magnet for the young anarchist-with-Daddy's credit card-style kid.

Thanks Kevin.

Always skip protests because you can never underestimate the violent nature of mobs.

Does anyone else wish they'd been a fly on the wall in Hillary's hotel room on election night?

Because that would have been awesome.

I mean, in the clinical, observational, scientific anthropological sociological sense, of course.

Dear god no Gog! You would have been squished when she threw her glass against the wall.

Dear fly on the wall: here ya go!

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/report-hillary-clinton-became-physically-violent-election-night-tore-robby-mook-john-podesta/

Invoking Godwin's law here . . .

Gog, that fly on the wall in Hillary's hotel room that night would have been like the fly on the wall in Hitler's Berlin Bunker back in '45 - not a pretty sight as everyone is blamed but "dear leader."

To Ppen:

A wise man once said, in the 1970s:

"...wherever I look people are not singing, they are shouting, they are not dancing, they are marching, they are not rejoicing, they are complaining. In fact we can safely say that throughout the world protest has become a game any number can play. One weekend in London my landlady got into the wrong march. That will show you what’s going on there..."

So, aside from the possibility of violence, one also has to remember that joining a march in the streets all too often tends to make one look like a mindless young nitwit, regardless of one's actual age. Voting isn't the only way to express oneself as an individual. Also, if there are multiple issues on the ballot, that means there are multiple mathematical ways to vote so that there won't be just two points of view in the end.