People have and will idly stand by if there were to be another Hitler. It’s as simple as that. At first you think it’s nothing, then you hope it’ll go away by itself, or hope it won’t affect you, after that you hope the inconvenience to you will be only be mild. But at some point you will have arrived in a world where you’re going down too, where suddenly you’re a young man being drafted into the army. Fighting for a cause you didn’t give a shit about.

And that’s also the reason why young people are doing the protesting and many older people don’t. They have something to lose and hope it won’t affect them. They hope it’s just a short term thing and business will go on as usual. After all, that’s all that is important at that point in life. Make a living and save enough for your children. Young people can still have hopes for the futures, no matter how futile those dreams may turn out to be.

In the end, the protestors have stood for something they believed in. They have made an effort to change the future for the better (in their eyes). But ultimately it’s not people who win, it’s money. And the money is across the border in the mainland.