re: Have protests ever changed a mind?

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The right to assemble peacefully and communicate a common message is invaluable and has been enormously successful throughout history.

What we are witnessing is an instigation of rioting and civil unrest. Not the same thing.

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This nation was founded on violent protests by a people who had convictions and had been pushed to the brink with little to lose further. These protests have nary a one of those elements. Not in Los Angeles or New York or Atlanta. They might in Gaza or Jerusalem but this is just the latest outrage in an endless stream of latest outrages. It will last until about fall, liable to get really ugly this summer, and then something sexier will come along and the protestors won't even know what is going on in Gaza....because it does not impact them and they have no skin in the game....