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Protesting In Presidential Elections

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Violently protesting the presidential election does bring notice to the protesters, but not at all in a positive way. Politicly speaking, there are many effective ways of sharing opinions and spreading your ideas peacefully. Citizens that choose to violently protest are not taken seriously and because instead of making changes they are breaking laws and causing serious problems in major cities across the country. Protesters need to understand how our government functions on a local, state, and federal level. The president doesn't hold some kind of crown in our country. If our president elect for this following January is as bad as protesters claim, he will be removed from office immediately so they have nothing to worry about. Protesting in these current ways make these individuals appear uneducated and negatively radical to the eyes of the public. Our president is not cable of passing any law he desires. All of our national government does not abide by one man’s, or woman’s, decision. In order for our president to pass laws they must first go through congress. Our current government is set up to make …show more content…

Presidents switch parties and policies nearly every general election. We went form President Bush who was a republican to President Obama who was a democrat and now we have a president elect who is a republican again. We are lucky to have this balance so that one party doesn't have complete control over our country. Democratic voters didn’t protest to this degree when President Bush was elected and republican voters certainly didn’t protest to this degree after President Obama was elected. This to me is quite surprising due to the fact that he was our first african-american president. I’m certain that many republican voters were upset about the results of the 2008 and 2012 general elections but protesting was not done to the point where it made national

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