I hate protestors. it's so....unAmerican

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155. And look what their "protests" accomplished

Check your Facebook pages, and see the number of dedicated Sanders supporters who are saying they are ashamed, who are pledging their support to Clinton and begging the BoB's to not be stupid and destructive.

In other words, the protests (otherwise known as shameful behavior), have done precisely the opposite of what they had intended, if anything concrete other than disrupting actually was intended. No hearts or minds were captured. People were pushed away.

I am a believer in protests, and have participated in a number myself: I marched in the streets in New York as a college student against the war in Vietnam. I went to several ActUp events in the early 90s. I marched from Boston Common down Commonwealth Avenue with 50,000 others in opposition to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. I stood in the bitter cold in Federal Plaza in Chicago to protest gun violence after Sandy Hook. These were public protests that focused on critical single issues, and they stood on their own terms. But never--ever--did I use protest to participate in a disruption of an event dedicated to some other purpose, or try to shut down other people's right to speech.

I want to live in a civil society. Acting uncivilly is not the way to advocate for just causes, and certainly not the thing to do just because your candidate lost. Civil disobedience is sometimes necessary, but never EVER should it be done uncivilly. Did we take away nothing from the teachings (and successes) of Dr. King?