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LurkerJ said:
Machiavellian said:

Why would you think lowly of people who protest which is pretty much how the US is built.  Now violence during protesting is something totally different.  Your last paragraph acts as if Bernie Sanders is someone that everyone believe as a successful politician.  For every person that loves Bernie, there is probably way more that think he is an idiot.  Do not forget that 70 million people vote for another term for Trump so there is definitely a large segment of the voting population that would definitely feel Bernie is not the direction the country should go. Protest is a way to get attention that people are not happy with the direction the country, state or local government is going.  Nothing wrong with it but with anything that can be taken advantage of, there will always be the grifters.

We live in an era where voting is more powerful than protesting. You can get more done for you if you do your homework and organise and spread the message, protesting doesn't get you nearly the same results. But who wants homework, let's get out and blow the city up, that's always easier than educating ourselves about the candidates you're presented with and their history as politicians. In my opinion, Bernie failed (as a presidential candidate, not a politician), because people didn't do their homework, not that I am presenting him as the ideal candidate to elect, just an example of someone who would've pushed for real solutions if he was elected 10 years ago. So yeah, no sympathy for the lazy. 

The thing is voting is only powerful if you serve the majority.  If you are a minority group how exactly does voting push your cause.  You have to make the majority understand that caring about the minority matters.  Do you believe that minority groups can just easily vote to make change if they do not have enough participants in the process.  Let just think this over for a second.  How do you believe that Jim Crow laws and other laws against minority group existed for a long time.  You must live in a world where the laws work for you and you are part of the majority.  Just think of it this way, why it take so long to see a black President in the US.  Even today we still see "First Black" in multiple states in government.  Getting people to care for your cause when you are the minority must be some type of science fiction you are believing or maybe you feel waiting centuries for the majority to give a damn is a better path to success. Protest and the right to protest is a fundamental right to American citizens.  It raises awareness on subjects you probably would dismiss out of hand because it does not effect your life.

As for Bernie, people did do their homework, just like everything, it fell on opinion.  For any article pushing what he is selling, I can find a dozen that say different.  The president job is not about effective leadership but a personality contest.  If it was a contest on skills, anyone who can even go for the job would need to take a battery of test to make sure they even have enough intelligence to run the country.  Its not about being lazy, its about maintaining the current status quo and when you serve the majority, you always will have that power.