YAY! and Boooooo.

So the country followed the dictates of this blog and voted to elect Mr. Trump as the next president of this great country. Good for us.

However, a very disturbing thing has since developed. Even though one of the main tenets of our democracy, and one of the things that has ensured our survival for the last 240 years, and our continued ability to follow the constitution has been the peaceful transfer of power. This has never been questioned or challenged.

Until now.

I feel that protests have a place in this country. They are used to bring awareness to issues, to try to effectuate change, to rally others to your cause. But there needs to be a cause. Something that others can get behind and work to further the cause. We don't protest breathing. We don't protest sleeping. We don't protest givens.

There is also no reason or purpose to protest something that is finished and can't be changed. Especially when that thing was put to the entire country, the country exercised its rights to be heard, the issue was debated, argued, pled, advertised, spoken and written about ad nauseaum. It is over. It is done. There is nothing to be gained by protesting.

Except anarchy. Something anathema to our love of democracy and rule of law.

The idiocy of this protesting was truly brought home when  a protester was interviewed on TV and she said "it was an affront to democracy that he was elected". Huh? I thought the whole POINT of democracy was to elect the person who was the will of the people. ( I will not get into popular vote vs. electoral college, that is not my call, its the way things are done.) She goes on to give Mr. Trump 5 or 6 pejorative labels. I think CBS News, where I saw this genius interviewed, realized how stupid she sounded, and edited out the line above when they put together their national coverage of the protests.
( You can check yourselves on the video from local CBS in New York last night, and the CBS News site today.)

Actually, once looking at the video, you can see that protest is the wrong word. To me, a protest is the million man march in the square of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, or gathering on the steps of City Hall. Peaceful gatherings that send a message for change. What we are seeing, with running onto highways in California and onto streets in New York, blocking traffic and climbing on light poles, are riots.  I also noticed Black Lives Matter signs, a group that is, to me, based on its history of violence, a domestic terrorist organization. This shows me that these riots are once again the work of the professional agitators who have been behind most of the riots in this country this year.

I fault the various City governments with not ending this immediately. When hundreds of people run onto a highway, then form a line to stop traffic, or run around the cars, as we saw in California, and here during other riots, and then there are only a handful of arrests, something is wrong. The City administrations are not doing their job in protecting the inhabitants of the city. This should be stopped immediately. we see what happens when these riots are allowed to continue, day after day. They result in what we had in Dallas, in Baton Rouge, in New York. utter lawlessness.

I also think it would be helpful if the losers of the election would come out and say that this is not he American way. Hillary and Obama need to go on the record, as soon as possible, and condemn these riots. Tell their supporters to stay involved in the political process and work to have the objects of their ire voted out the next time. Not to riot in the streets and promote the anarchy.