I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Why protest someone else's rally?

[basselope]

24. I'm stuck in a chicken / egg situation here.

Most political rallies I have gone to have been 100% supporters of the candidate and IF there are any protests.. they are outside.

I have never personally been to a political candidate rally where people are inside and actively trying to disrupt it. I've seen activities at presidential addresses or actual people in office speaking.. but not at candidate rallies.

I can't help but remember this incident at Real Time:

?t=47s Bill Maher, when someone several people interrupted the show with 9/11 copnspiracy theories... Bill got up and said, I'm going to have kick his ass out of here and then goes on to push the guy up the stairs (and it looks like he falls). If you watch the whole clip at the end when the final person speaks up he says "don't be gentle with him... ass kicking is what's called for"

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I don't remember people calling for Bill Maher to be fired for that or there being much uprising about it. Most people understood that someone interrupted a live show and needed to be kicked out of the audience.

For some reason this political season (and maybe it happened in years i wasn't involved, as I haven't been actively involved since 2003... but it seems like so many campaign rallies are being interrupted. BLM interrupting Bernie and Clinton. MANY protesters at Trump rallies... some intentionally trying to incite the audience. Now, both Clinton and Sanders handled it non-violently.. Trump, not so much. But, my question is ... WTF.

I'm Jewish (not practicing, but its more of a race than religion). There is 0 chance I would go to some Nazi gathering and hold up a sign telling them to all go fuck themselves. Now, IF those Nazi's were actually DOING something other than sitting around and talking about their idiotic views, that is a different story. But, if they want to go sit in a room and watch old film of Hitler speak... have a freakin party.

If a bunch of morons want to gather together to listen to Trump spout. Whatever.

However, once someone walks into one of those places with the intent to disrupt it.. I don't totally understand their goal and what they hope to accomplish, except may to show that some of Trump's followers (or many) are racist violent A-holes? We knew that and I didn't need to see some hayseed punch an AA to believe it.

HOWEVER... many people see that clip and see the AA giving the crowd the finger and thing "Good, he deserved it".. so I feel like, in the end, they are just fanning the flames rather than actually making a statement.