protest the current state of our government.
What does that mean, and how do you gauge your success?
I think of protests a bit like I think of marketing, and there's a significant difference between a marketing goal and a management goal, yet most people confuse the two and regard marketing efforts as a failure when in fact the marketing goal wasnt what was unnecessarily met but the management goal.
It may very well be my intent to change an aspect of the current state of government (kind of like a management goal in need of tweaking). Marketing is an eclectic discipline that is regarded as a managerial tool. One may want to first communicate the change desired through marketing efforts and use a protest as a means to do so.
What's interesting is that a marketing goal can be successful yet not materialize into a successfully met managerial goal.
If your overarching goal was to bring about change, then that's something quite different than if it was to protest for that change. Yes, I grasp that you are protesting so that change might transpire, but sometimes we utilize the wrong tools for the job we seek to accomplish ... my steak won't cook no matter what setting I turn the fridge to, lol.
So, that brings me full circle back to my original question. Well, it seems you were clear enough, as you said there were many there trying to make a point, and if that's the case and the point was made, then characterizing the protest as ruined because of ensuing violence seems to suggest that maybe there was more sought after than trying to make a point, and more wanted than what can be accomplished through mere protest.
Had there been no interruption to the protest, would it have been followed by yet another one, not because the points weren't made but rather because the changes sought hadn't materialized?
Just trying to make sense of it all
