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Excerpt from the article: "Why aren’t Americans rising up in peaceful protest like our neighbors?". Well, because those protests aren't peaceful as you think. At least in Chile, every shop, hotel and place where protesters appeared has been destroyed.

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There is no reason to rise up. You can just vote. And it works just fine.

And when your side loses, that's because democracy works.

Sometimes democracy means that idiots will win if there were more of them. There is no cure for that.

Except recently it doesn't work that well.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/north-carolinas-legisl... [2] https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2019/10/us-supreme-cou... [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/voting-rights-minoriti...

The cure for that does exist: it’s called education. That’s why the Founders were very clear that public education and libraries were so important.

Rodney King? Black Lives Matter? There are still areas of Chicago and Detroit and Los Angeles that bear the scars of mass and violent unrest if you look closely enough. One of the most venerated U.S. representatives was severely beaten [1] in a mass non-violent protest. Is it a question of how much longer things can stay calm?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(civil_rights_lea...

I saw videos of Chile in the last month that had uniform military and non-uniform officials murder citizens. One specifically was a plain cloths man that walked out of a clearly government building with a carbine, shot into a crowd of 6-8 people, dropped a couple and walked back inside.

Why aren’t Americans “rising up” like in Chile? Let me know when you see that scene in the USA.

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