A protest is just a riot waiting to happen. It’s basically foreplay before the real mayhem starts.

It seems as if a larger percentage of each generation simply does not care. For all the “get out the vote”, or “rock the vote” campaigns the eventual voter turnout for young people is still very low.

Young people who start out as liberals grow up, move out of their parents homes, get jobs, start paying bills and taxes, get married, and have children. As their idealized view of the world is brutally shattered by cold, hard reality they become more and more conservative. A few never grow up and become bitter, angry old liberals. As they get older they start voting more.

A peaceful protest is an exception rather than the rule. Very, very few stay peaceful for long and a peaceful anti-war protest is an oxymoron.