You're getting downvoted but you've hit on something: Most of these protest movements are or aim to be nonviolent, whereas the power of the state is always ulti

You're getting downvoted but you've hit on something: Most of these protest movements are or aim to be nonviolent, whereas the power of the state is always ultimately projected via violence. For a protest or movement to have real impact, it has to either use violence itself (projecting political power directly), or it has to prepare for a sustained nonviolent absorption/withstanding of state violence (to get political power on its side). Either way you need a lot more determination, organization, sustained effort, and friends than it takes to organize a flash mob.