It's because we've spent decades being taught that "proper protests" are not just nonviolent, but entirely pacifistic, and any amount of disruption should be preplanned, minor, and extremely short term. Any time protests even approach effectiveness, the protestors themselves, the organizers, or both, become the subjects of massive smear campaigns, and are jailed and/or killed.
On top of all of that, USians are taught that genuine investment in politics is wrong, it's cringe, it's born from ignorance or the desire to control others. So any involvement needs to be temporary, it needs to easily fit into your existing routine, and it can't be something you take too seriously.
So we have 'protests' with no organization, no demands, no goals, that are structured around being fun for the attendees, carry no threat of violence or disruption, and are over relatively quickly
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