I see I was very rapidly downvoted. Let me expand: the history of labor rights, environmental protests, and many others have all been through disruption. Take

I see I was very rapidly downvoted. Let me expand: the history of labor rights, environmental protests, and many others have all been through disruption. Take a completely difference example: anti-logging. Logging protesters march through the streets, disrupting traffic and making people late for work. (Legal marches.) Or they sit up trees and chain themselves, preventing the trees from being cut. (Usually illegal.) Both these get significant attention. Democracy is rife with examples like this. How did the suffragettes get the vote? By protest. Yet many other groups would have -- and have tried -- to prevent these protests and actions, just like the 'customers' cited in the comment I replied to. That's my point: to call being able to prevent that 'democratic' is outside the past century and a half of modern Western democratic history.