"People are too busy with their annual consumer feeding frenzy to be bothered. Folks got credit card debt they gotta hurry and max out fer chrissake! "

Or, some of us might have been at work, like we usually are on a Tuesday. Even the local newspaper reported that the crowd in Sacramento was "mostly grandmothers and graying veterans."

Protests timed to coincide with the work day are bound to have a poor turnout.