I've never been to a demonstration, but I've been in agreement with several.
Plenty of my friends are the same. (We're an apathetic lot). I don't think
you can just dismiss demonstrations of this scale as a "rent-a-mob" -
especially not if you're going to use "silent majority" arguments.

Jonn

But that does not affect my definition of "ordinary people" who, I still
maintain, are the sort of people that do not go on demonstrations. Whether they
support those that do or not is another matter, but does not remove them, or
you, from my definition.

Marc.