I’ve always looked at protests, those crowds of unwashed humanity snaking their way through downtown shouting and holding incoherent banners, as completely useless in solving/ending whatever or whoever is being protested. A protest isn’t for the thing being protested about, it’s for the protesters. The protest makes the protesters feel good, feel like they’ve accomplished something tangible when in reality the protest itself is just Chinese food, an hour later you’re hungry again and no progress has been made toward solving the problem.
As far as I’m concerned this is a blanket statement that applies to anyone or any group staging a protest, although generally speaking I’ve only seen leftist and left-leaning groups protesting. This says a lot about how ineffectual the left is in getting their point across. Rather than digging in and getting their hands dirty doing the work to come to a solution, which would be much more satisfying in the long run, they would rather whine and bitch about it in public. It’s a painful thing to watch and leaves me feeling dirty, like I’ve just burst in on my grandparents doing the nasty. Intellectually, I know they can and frequently probably do, but that doesn’t mean I want to see it.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred has a slightly more nuanced take:
The left needs war and strife, because without war and strife, they would have to make actual contributions to benefit others. Bitching about democracies and freedom does not contribute to the benefit of anyone but the frauds doing the bitching. In every case, bitching is a lot easier than actually working and contributing- and if you bitch loud enough, you can convince yourself you are more relevant than you really are.