It is sooo mesy and inconvenient .........
When the people become involved with their own democracy. Neatness is when the people limit their participation in the government process to voting every four years for prez and every two for congress.
Your "street theater" was more participatory democracy than conservatives can tolerate. Ergo, John Lennon was deported, the national guard invaded Kent State to protect us all from those campus terrorists that put flowers in the guards gun barrels.
BTW, it was a Republican governor that called out the guard--Otto Kerner.
Yeah, too much democracy is a scarry thing.
Publius