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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: The #blacklivesmatter movement is shooting themselves in the foot by interrupting Bernie Sanders political events.
gpt
Perhaps cynical, but they might believe that

1. **Disrupting political events like Bernie Sanders' are an effective way to get media attention**: Sanders and his audience are too nice to let goons tackle and remove the protesters, so they get basically a free stage in front of the press with no time limit. The press is already there for Sanders, and the event becomes even more newsworthy when they disrupt it.
2. **Disrupting the events of the _actual_ Democratic candidate for the 2016 election would be going too far**. They want the Democratic side to win, and also people would hate them for harming that candidate.
3. But, **they believe Bernie Sanders has zero chance of getting the Democratic nomination.**

In this perspective, Bernie is going to lose anyhow, and by callously stepping all over him, they can promote their agenda without actually harming the Democratic cause in 2016.

There is no shooting themselves in the foot here. The only downside to them is their conscience might be telling them it's wrong to use Bernie like this, but that's pretty much it.

Bernie Sanders is collateral damage, but they don't care about him.