Would you have gone to the Chicago rally?

[JackRiddler]

Simple question: If you lived in a big, majority black and hispanic city, like New York, Chicago, or LA, and you heard Donald Trump was to speak a few blocks away, and you were free, would you have gone to protest? Would you have walked in to the arena peacefully and legally along with the majority of people there? I hope so! I certainly would have. And I think the rally is great news.

[Kalidurga]

1. Yes

[VulgarPoet]

2. Without second thought.

Those men, women, and people are fucking heroes, full stop. We've watched the seeds of fascism come to fruition one too many times to just roll over and let Trump spew his disgusting rhetoric.

[PatrickforO]

3. Yes. White supremacy needs to be opposed tooth and nail, everywhere, at any time and

from the beginning. If Trump gets into power we're fucked.

[olddots]

4. nothing will keep me away

nothing

[dana_b]

5. Yes, an organized protest like this, yes

I have the utmost respect for people who go and do it on their own or just a couple of them do. That is GUTS!!

There was a guy the day before yesterday who was at a Trump rally and an older guy just punched him in the head. Wth?? You may disagree with someone but there's never a reason to lay hand on them.

[joshcryer]

6. I don't think I would've went inside.

I would've hung out with the protesters and talked about stuff.

After though I think I would've wished I went inside. Just to have been there.

If I knew about the protest action beforehand I would've gone in, but I didn't know about that until after the fact.

[VulgarPoet]

7. Bernie was willing to walk into Liberty "University"-- which might as well be Democratic Mordor

we should be willing to walk into our own personal Mordor to preserve the future.

[TheFarS1de]

8. A rather apt similarity

One wants to destroy the ring , the other wants to keep it

[democrattotheend]

9. I might have been scared to go

Being in a room full of the hateful kind of people who attend any Republican rally, especially a Trump rally, is pretty scary. I am not sure I would have had the guts.

[speaktruthtopower]

10. Not to the extent that it shut down his right to speak and his supporters to hear...

whatever one thinks of their views they went to the trouble to go listen to him after work, on a weeknight.

[bigwillq]

11. Yes (nt)

[ebayfool]

12. In a hot minute, yes. Protest is a time-tested American tradition and right.

And I was pleased to see people throwing off the apathy that has seemed so present for many years. Silence in the face of hate and bigotry implies consent. Both Sanders and Clinton have dealt with protesters (BLM, etc) and their voices are still being heard. Sanders dealt with his better, as far as I'm concerned - he allowed them to voice their message. Trump just vanished (although I read he admires tanks at Tienanmen Square).

We are allowed to see the response of the campaigns, that is no small indicator of how an elected candidate will respond to the electorate when we holler at them when they inevitably bound to happen, you know this) let down a sector of the population down the road.

It's a sign of a free, healthy democracy when citizens are free to protest.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Sure, why not...