Over the past decades, across the globe, there has emerged the idea that “protesting” is a valid, legitimate, and altogether natural activity when faced with unappealing election outcomes or disagreeable government behavior. This idea that “protesting” is “democratic” needs to be reconsidered, particularly the notion that protesting is somehow automatically virtuous and democratic when it may very well be the opposite.
Fair and honest elections are what define modern ‘democratic’ self-governing nations, not small bands of hyper-emotional ill informed and too often paid agitators protesting something or other they may not really understand or even care very much about.
Few would suggest that paid protesters opposing an otherwise valid election outcome are a healthy part of a ‘democratic’ system. But beyond the issue of the potential for fraud and malicious manipulation created by the use of paid protesters is the more troubling development of a “protester culture”.
Again, ‘democracies’ in the modern sense of the term are defined by fair and honest elections that the people ACCEPT. You don’t have to like the outcome every time, but you do have to accept the outcome because to do otherwise is to reject the system of self-government. This Acceptance also means that you believe the best way of altering a bad election outcome is to do a better job convincing the voters during the next election. These are the foundational principles of ‘democratic’ self-government. These beliefs need to be supported as matters of Faith in order for self-government to succeed. Protesting a valid and legal election because the other side won is rejecting the ‘democratic’ system, and embracing some very non-democratic alternatives such as rule by mobs, coups by elites, oligarchic conspiracies to manipulate or maintain the status quo, or some unpleasant combination of the above. When this happens your democracy/republic is finished.
To read more: https://medium.com/@alexanderjhay/the-dangerous-emergence-of-protestor-culture-4cbfe9f8b1b5
Yes, and it is especially tragicomical when the people protesting the outcome of an election are the supporters of a party which gets the votes of dead people, illegal aliens, people who voted multiple times, etc.