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"
When the rules are no longer reasonable, it becomes reasonable to be unruly.
The moment authorities lose their capacity to track "who did what", and the people realize it, when they realize they can "get away with it", that's when all hell breaks loose
If that happens, for a reason or another, you don't need a fucking famine for people to start burning shits en mass, starting with tax offices and "migrant centers", for instance, given the actual level of overall pissed off. In fact, you don't even need millions of people, not even hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands is largely enough in such context
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