Because - hilariously - none of you lives in a true blue part of the country.

OK, I'll take a crack at this one. First though, Dope, if I'm not mistaken, I am far from reading every post but I believe I've seen you lament the fact that you aren't given more credibility on this board. Unfounded, unsubstantiated and inaccurate statements like this has everything to do with it.

Personally, I live in a small (13,000 people), very blue and very civil town in southern California.

As far as protests go, I do a small one most Friday evenings at the main intersection in town--just people hanging out waving signs and other people driving by and honking if they so choose. Then there have been larger protest marches on the "big weekends", such as the No Kings rallies.

Only one time--I think it was the first big one--have I seen anyone acting even remotely out of line and trying to stir the pot to create a scene. A guy had a megaphone and was trying to get people riled up, but once he and one other guy stepped into the street to try to stop traffic, they were roundly booed and shouted down by the rest of the hundreds of protestors. A couple of people went out to them and tried to reason with them to get them out of the street, and one old lady--bless her heart--tried to physically drag them off the street (she was not successful). The police came quickly and were cheered loudly as they hauled the two guys off (never to be seen again at a local protest). That's as close to violence as has happened here, and the only thing at all out of line.

Yes, I'm sure there are instances of violence and bad behavior at the extremes that you can cling to to support your chosen belief that us liberals are a bunch of rabble-rousers who love nothing better than to create havoc and try to violently exercise our support of our beliefs (all while ignoring the probably larger number of instances of right-wing extremists doing the same thing). But if you can find it in yourself to look at the bigger picture, it's a different story.