Many lost their lives. The same can be said for the early efforts to give working people the right to organize in unions. Lots of folks thought we should have stayed out of that war. It cost us 405,399 lives. Reasonable people have differed over those evils and those risks.
Reasonable people can differ today about the evil of corporate takeover of our democracy.
Reasonable people can differ about the risk of a George W. Bush presidency. But very little changed and you ended up with no voice and no power. You wasted your votes on Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern and you got Nixon and you survived. But very little changed and you ended up with no voice and no power. You wasted your votes on Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale and you got Ronald Reagan and you survived.