I totally agree, and we're far from alone to think just that. What's a regional protest without MSM coverage? A bear farting in the woods essentially. It's a show of force indeed, democratic or otherwise eventually, through sheer numbers In the end it's a matter of leverage, means of pressure on .gov, and mass protests to show how grumpy the "customers"/voters are aside, citizen don't have much margin. They can make phone calls en masse. Of course those limitations are induced by the legal boundaries. Those are lawful protests, like they announce where it's going to take place and for how long, within a particular time window, anything happening outside of those boundaries gets the stick essentially If the same number of people, were protesting in front of "public servant" homes, it would definitely not have the same impact, in the minds of those public servants, it would become a tad too personal, too close to home, literally. And of course this will never be permitted because "blah"