You don't know what you're talking about, there are very clear goals that are being advertised by different protesters. Gotta read and watch more carefully.
You guys are talking about two different things.
There were many targeted protests with a clear message and a clear goal.
But as long as they stay peaceful and don't cause any disruptions they largely go unnoticed.
Which is the reason why more extreme forms of protests developed on the left.
And one example for the more extreme forms of protests are the black block people.
They are largely apolitical, they don't have a message and the participants see it rather as a sport or a hobby to go crazy and destroy things. They're actually quite similar to football hooligans.
I personally always supported the left wing protests at these kinds of events. The general message was that world politics lack compassion and solidarity and that corporate interests weigh more than peoples interests.
Bottom line: People want a more social form of capitalism.
However, I think in recent years we've seen the rise of much more sophisticated threats from the right.
Rising nationalism threatens the very core values of the liberal west.
Thats a much more urgent issue we have to deal with than the structural flaws of our implementation of global capital.
In fact, I see some overlapping between Trump-brand nationalist populism and left wing populism, and thats not good at all.
