Political protests are a fed psyop. The only successful peaceful sign protests are ones they intended to be successful. They want the masses to think these changes were their idea and that they have influence over the government. The opposite is true however. Only ideas that farther the centralist planners agenda ever get implemented and the population has zero influence over them. In this way they prevent themselves from losing power and any real reform from ever occurring through actual revolution. They condition people to believing change can occur without sacrifice.