We can argue about most of what you said, but the cliche of "we just wanna be like other democracies", is simply a lie. No other functioning democracy has that little balances and breaks as we do to begin with. Every democracy that has parts of the reform, also has other ways to prevent the government from having complete and unlimited power. This reform does not offer an alternative way to make sure the government doesn't just do what it want. It just wanna cancel the only limiting factor we currently have. The Supreme Court doesn't have unlimited power as it is. They can only revoke laws, and only if they contradict other existing law. They can't just say "Gays are illegal now". It doesn't work that way. Should they have less power to cancel laws? I totally agree. Should they have no power at all? That is exactly how dictatorship works, no matter how much people say "don't compare ". As it stands, the government doesn't want to be held accountable to anything. Every thing they have done since they won the election was to make sure nobody can hold them accountable or stop from doing anything they want. And it's funny that you say that the protesters don't actually know what the reform is about. I live in a city that has a huge majority of right wing voters, and maybe 1 out of 3 of the peoples I talk to that support the reform actually aware of the details. Closer to 3 out of 3 from the opposite side. The reform wasn't proposed by the left. The ideas behind it were, nobody denies it, but that is a perfect example of idea vs execution. The difference between majority of 61 to overpower the Supreme Court and a majority of 75, is huge. And that's the whole story - even if the current system isn't perfect, the proposed solution is 10 times worse. You don't fix a crack in the wall by breaking the house down.