


How Protesters Harm Their Causes

Modern street protesters are losing middle-of-the-road people they wish to influence. The last street protests to positively sway public opinions were over 40 years ago. Modern street protests, void of literature that might play to our brains, is now just pure demagoguery, attracting viscerally, not cerebrally. If they're trying to evoke memories of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., it's not working. King never threatened violence; protesters now do. King's marchers quietly displayed their grievances; today's protesters shout them. Shouting is not discourse. Modern Americans are moved by writing and calm speech; they are repelled by protests with elements of thuggery....