After the 2016 Presidential Election, you would think we would all accept our new president. But many areas populated by democratic voters have had their streets filled with protesters. These protesters are angry Clinton supporters seeking justice of what they see as an “unfit” president for the next four years. All choosing to either follow others, or just join the quest for what they see as a future they can change with these riots.

I myself was a Hillary Clinton supporter up until the winner was announced. But personally, I think riots are just too much. A survey shows that 60% of the protesters didn’t vote at all. But the other 40% did. Maybe it’s angry parents who want to protect their kids. But some are even claiming themselves to be professional protesters. Either way, all of them are angry over the fact electoral college trumped their votes.

In my 6th grade Science and Social Studies classes, we learned that electoral college is a group of people, the number depending on population, who cast a vote depending on the dominant vote in their state. Never in history has an elector gone against its states choosing. All you need are 270 electoral votes to be elected president. Highly populated areas like Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Denver, but most recently, Portland, have seen horrific frenzies occurring in the streets of their cities. Protesters are burning American flags, smashing cars, and breaking windows all because the majority of their state chose Trump over Hillary. Thus having the electors send their votes in for our president.

All though these protests have been mostly peaceful, some have turned violent, resulting in tear gas being used on these rioters. Have they gone too far? Is bruising the people who protect us so important that we have to continue? Expressing your beliefs is one thing, threatening to assassinate our president is another. This is the cruel reality of the threats they are making. One of the first protests immediately after the election, was right in front of our nation’s capital, the prestigious White house. These protesters were threatening to burn it to the ground and murder Trump. But the thing is truthfully, Hilary just gave up. The night before the election, Hillary Clinton turned her undivided attention away from 3 major swing states, North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida. Thus quickly losing many of her democratic voters. A swing state is a state that commonly changes it’s voter majority from Republican to Democrat and so forth. Our state, Pennsylvania is one of those states, unlike Texas or California. In which Texas almost always votes Republican, and California Democrat.

So if Hillary gave up, is there any real reason to protest?

Is this all just a waste of valuable time or a real issue?

I think we should all put down the “Not our President” banners, and just accept the fact we cannot change our president, but only accept it with optimism for the future.