1) Max, didn't you argue recently along the lines that violent protesters should bear in mind how their actions will look to "Joe/Jane Average" types e.g. your friend the gent who follows his daughter in his truck when she jogs, has the son in the USMC who always calls you "sir" ('fraid I don't have the time to find and copy it for referral)? Wouldn't "average people/the Mass" generally not really care about the protests too much except to condemn violent protesters? Most people in my experience pretty much agree with or least don't oppose capitalism as such. Most people want exactly what the elites want (maybe for different reasons): "peace, rule of law, and good government (which doesn't get in the way with taxes, silly laws, etc.)". They also wouldn't mind being where the elites are (who honestly wouldn't?), and move in that direction by setting up businesses and trying to grow them (and saying the whole while, in effect or literally, "I'll be DAMNED if those bureaucrats tell ME, a hard-working business owner, what to do!"). Why bother to worry overmuch what these people think, if they more or less go along with the status quo?
2) You talk about tactics, Max; what would you suggest (this is curiosity, not sarcasm)? I personally doubt the effectiveness of protest of any vein, especially without good politics to back it up, as Yoshie mentioned. I truly doubt protest will have much of an effect without there being some iron-clad proof of "unfair" use of deadly violence a la the Kent State protest shootings (peaceful, "good [probably white, but maybe not] kids" who get shot down). Didn't that have some sort of "mass ripple" effect in American society at the time?
3) Max and Kelley: see 1) but in the context of the sheer ignorance most people have of the sort of stuff we discuss routinely on this list. Again this is my personal experience, but it seems most average folk really just want to live out their lives without getting hassled or bothered too much, and the status quo more or less delivers that bill of goods. "If it aint broke, don't fix it." is a common motto, in one form or another, I've heard.
Todd (So much more to say . . . .)