i have tried several times to explain this to friends of mine, always leftist tards. they do not understand that for a successful protest, you need the people to be on the side of your cause AND on the side of your on-the-ground protest. this is where they lose most NIMBY liberals is that they begin to hinder day to day behavior, thinking that this hindrance will be associated with the enemy of their cause... but in reality, it's only ever associated with them. you're the one there. you're the one choosing to hold up the road. 95% of people will blame you, and you alone.
they do this same thing with their gay little environmental protests. throwing beans on paintings people love, blocking roads everyday blue collar workers need to use to get to work. their responses are always "Well your boss shouldn't be threatening you with being fired, and we're trying to help you!" but they fail to realize most people don't give a fuck about the structure of the country that way. they agree that if you don't show up to work you should be fired because they know that plenty of people they've worked with haven't shown up before, and it's fucked them over. but when you have never worked a real job, when you've been on a tugboat, or gibs, or taken care of by your parents your entire life, you do not have the capacity to understand how virulently hateful regular people are when you interrupt their commute for something that has nothing to do with them.