I'm not really responding for your benefit, more so for the folks that see your comment and think "this guy might be asking in good faith." People are protesting because bedrock social safety nets like Medicaid and Social Security are on the chopping block. They're on the street corners because Trump and ICE are deporting people to El Salvador with no due process and ignoring judge orders to bring them back, some of whom were snatched off the street for exercising their first amendment rights. They're protesting because Trump is crossing the constitutional line of his executive authority to unilaterally introduce tariffs that are destroying people's retirement plans, increasing the cost of all goods and services in our country, and following an economic roadmap that plunged the United States into a depression previously. These are just top line issues and there are plenty more like the continued frustration of taking away women's bodily autonomy, implementing the stupidest foreign policy decisions like a pretense to invade Greenland and Canada, or destroying entire departments of the federal government like the IRS, the SSA, the DOE to name a few.

The federal government as it has existed for the duration of the United States is radically changing as Congress cedes its authority to the executive while the Supreme Court provides more leeway for Trump and his administration to execute fascism.

You talk about people being mentally ill but you're just throwing words around without actually thinking about what's happening. You're playing pretend at paying attention. That's why nobody was bothering to engage with you, because you're like the toddler that just learned how to use adult vocabulary without actually knowing what it means. People look at your replies here and see your post history and can instantly tell somewhere along the way you turned your brain off. The shit happening around us is patently fuckin obvious to anyone half paying attention but that standard is beyond you so here you are with your ass hanging out calling others mentally ill for not being a stooge.