Where are they?
There are opponents and supporters of the coup d’état.
According to the polls, those who support it are between 19% of the public and 35%, depending on which question is being asked, whether it is increasing or decreasing, etc., and what the options for answering are in that survey. This is according to my monitoring for more than six months in a row.
This evening, supporters held a demonstration with bus advertising, etc. in front of the Supreme Court, with the support of politicians, rabbis, and signatures. It was excellent organization, and yet there were, one might say, 3,000 there, or maybe less.
I saw pictures both from the media and from friends who were there and took pictures and sent them.
I asked how it happens that the public doesn’t express its opinion?
It is clear to me that if about 2 million people (and probably more) support the coup
2 million won’t get there, and not even 1 million.
But so little?
Is there an explanation?
I have no idea. I don’t know the facts either.
Because those who support the government. They don't feel that demonstrating is effective on any level. In my opinion, they're not really wrong. The government knows that there is support for the reform, and yet the broad and fierce opposition is bothering them. Showing support won't change their predicament.
The 3,000 who demonstrated are important. Amit Segal and the other right-wingers are important. Reminding them that support for the reform still exists. But going further is unnecessary in my opinion, and it seems that the public of supporters understands this too, at least unconsciously.
***Because the supporters – are in power…
They don't feel etc’***
Part of it is what David said. In my opinion, it is also partly that this reform is not as burning for many people who support it as it is for the politicians who promote it. I can testify for myself. Levin and Rotman really want to make changes to the judicial system. For me, this issue is very low on the priority list. Sure, I support some reform of the judicial system, but I am not going to fight half my people for it and that is what it will take to move these things in the situation that the leaders of this reform have led us to.
I saw about half an hour of the demonstration. I did not see any attempt to market the reform to the crowds protesting against it. What I heard sounded to me mostly like inflammatory speech that will excite the feelings of the reform's ardent supporters, but will probably not build trust among the protesters. On the contrary. It will increase their fear that this reform is only the first stage in a corrupt takeover of the country. Even I was disgusted by most of what I heard (in my mother, if I ever see a dictatorship and the High Court in the same sentence again). I'm not going to protest about it and if the noise and the ringing continue as they are now, I won't vote for it either.
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