Even a dark horse.
Yeah, you're right: the mob mentality is plain to see in this example of protest.
The people in this example were just masochists, plain and simple. They had no point to make that couldn't have been addressed in the Editorials.
". . .accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."*
Some people's levels of tolerance are lower than others'. They are called nuts, and malcontents, and heroes. Sometimes later, they are called prophets. But that's history's job to decide.
Protest, seen in your context, is only valid when it occurs in the first person.
Regards--
Mary Anne
*written by that notorious Frenchie-lover, T. Jefferson
Off Topic » in reply to Protesters as Psychological Studies.
A white horse keeps the streetsweepers just as busy as a horse of different color
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