Protests today have nothing on the past. The grousing and whining from slightly inconvenience professors and colleges woeful that there's been a tiny bit of pro

Protests today have nothing on the past. The grousing and whining from slightly inconvenience professors and colleges woeful that there's been a tiny bit of property damage are ridiculous next to a historical backdrop of what it took to get civil rights, what it took to end slavery, what it took to get labor rights. There's a much stronger streak of authoritarianism, of intolerance to any disruption. Telling people to go to the ballots and not vote seems like a very bad idea to me. You stand to deeply deeply injure & remove from power the people you probabpy best identify with, in 95% of cases. The new blood you vote for 4 or 6 years down the road after you get your representative kicked out are going to be fighting an incumbent, which typically is seen as a harder challenge.