1: You should not take any of that at face value. Most of the people in the protest are part of 2 groups. The first are paid agitators and protestors, yes there are actually companies and entities that pay you to come and falsely protest for something as a way to spread propaganda through physical appearance -- most people do not know this or are able to comprehend the scale on which this is happening.
2: Second are people who are completely delusional, biased or derive benefit from illegals or whatever stuff is being abused. Think about it.
3: If you create measures to stricter social aid, which will reduce corruption severely, you will have mass protests by people who are abusing these things or who have friends or family members that are abusing them. Should we listen to these people? No. Actually, swift and mass arrests for corruption is what would sort this thing out.
4: This is where China is better than the west, even high level corruption is exterminated as soon as it is encountered.
The western world, Europe especially, is very corrupt from the bottom up.
I broke this text to smaller paragraphs and will answer them one by one.
1: From a perspective of someone who has taken part in protests and even organized some, this is hilarious. This kind of reasoning can only come from people who wouldn't do anything related to solidarity without getting paid.
And it doesn't cost anything to use your brain on this: If being paid for protesting was a thing, it would be proven 100x times over and over already by people infiltrating in these schemes and tweeting their proof.
Could you practice some empathy and imagine that someone has different values then you? That they would be genuinely worried about the outcome of breaking down safety nets in society. How it affects civil peace, jobs and economy when people stop spending and hating minorities? Not to mention how it affects to people who are in the worst position because of their health situation and position in general.
There are people who are there for solidarity and people who are desperate situations, people who like to spend time with other people and some people looking to vent. Not all of them are going to behave like in a church, it would be impossible to even demand that.
Oh, but free soup was served at some cases because soup kitchens were involved? [sarcasm]How very evil is that?[/sarcasm].
2: Funny how you don't seem to see how perfect example of psychological projection you are creating, by imaging the only reasons you would be protesting for. Not everyone has same values.
3: Throwing words like corruption over social aid is pretty weak argument, when numbers how much that occurs is nothing compared to actual proof of corruption of people cutting those social benefits. They are an embodiment of corruption and some of them welfare queen billionaire individuals.
4: So you are now praising the way of authoritarian fascism with strict restriction of expression? In fascism / authoritarianism, whistleblowers of corruption are jailed or killed. Same goes with anyone teaching about democracy.
Regulations are literally best way to combat corruption, and those are something that are standing in a way of corrupt people, who are calling it a "big government" problem.
