In a Democracy, the Right to Protest must be sacred, it must be defended tooth and claw.
Any attempts by a government in a democratic country to reduce or restrict the right to protest must be resisted and fought.
Like it or not - the dangerous, ridiculous, foolish, deranged idiots who are protesting against lockdowns and vaccine mandates, are exercising their Democratic Rights.
It's a difficult thing to accept, but in fact: Democracy is nothing more than Mob Rule.
If the majority of the population were joining in those demonstrations, then by definition - they would be able to influence Government Policy and thereby also indirectly have the Laws changed to suit their demands. That is Democracy, because the Elected Representatives roles are literally to represent the will of the majority of people.
Eg.: if your friends want to jump off of a cliff, you don't have to join them. But in a Democracy, if the majority of people demand that we ALL jump off a cliff - then Democracy MUST obey.
It would be an error to think of this as a "flaw" of Democracy. It's not true that Democracy is the "best" type of Government, it's not true that Democracy is an "almost perfect" type of Government that regrettably has a few flaws.
The truth is that Democracy is deeply, fundamentally flawed.
The Inmates are already running the Asylum, and they always have been.

What is better than Democracy? I don't know. It seems that the world has not yet invented a better system.
But Democracy is very far from perfect.
If humanity and the Earth are to survive, we need to invent a better system of Government than Democracy.
I don't know what it would look like.
But it needs to look better than the sight of streets full of deranged idiots demanding that they be allowed to put everyone (including themselves) in serious danger.

@soundwave you clearly have no idea what the word majority means. All the majority need to do is to refuse, it would be a suicide for a government to persecute majority of the population. Only a minority would need to cause a ruckus or a disruption to achieve their goals. Right to peaceful demonstration is part of freedom of expression, and whatever imaginary utopia you are salivating over will either uphold that or remain utterly degenerate.

If you want to criticize the concept of majority rule, maybe talk about how there is not always a clear majority opinion in any given matter, which allows the few to manipulate the many, but I presume anything beyond dichotomy is impossible for you to reason about.

@namark
You seem to enjoy doing an awful lot of presuming and assuming that I am a simpleton.
You have demonstrated that your preferred means of rebuttal is to selectively attack only a small part of my thesis, which is only one of the supporting points of my argument (and I note that the particular part that you attack is never actually the concusion itself) and then you perform a classic Straw Man. This kind of schoolyard tactics is really not enticing me to invest much effort into properly engaging with you.

@soundwave your whole point is that democracy in concept is a mob rule, which according to you is what majority of people are collectively. I directly addressed this central thesis of your whole book series here that you keep repeating over and over again, so keep coping and while you are at it maybe look up the definitions of the words majority and minority.

Otherwise yes please enlighten me which other major points of yours did I miss, and where is my strawman, I really want to talk to him.

@namark

Seriously. Do you actually have the ability to talk to someone respectfully like an adult? Why do you compelled to talkin such a condescending way to **Everyone**. Cant you interact with people like a mature respectful person? I dont get it. Is it a personality disorder or something we need to cut you some slack on or what?

@soundwave