So true. People here are suspicious of these shiny programs from 'elsewhere'.
It is seldom people will go to bat for any idea that has nothing in it for them, that is just human nature.
Take the one-two of Socialized health care and gay "marriage"--which would have the general population paying for the consequences of the perversions of others.
Or the anti-smoking crowd who got the camel's nose under the tent with the perfectly reasonable request for no-smoking areas, and expanded that to shove smokers (literally, this time of year) out into the cold. (I want to know if they are any healthier now that they aren't exposed to all that evil smoke, or if they are about the same.)
With a willing media, they can find sufficient boogeymen and plenty of useful idiots and true believers to protest most anything, and for some of them, it is an industry. If there was ever enough of whatever they are protesting for, or the (complete) elimination of what they are protesting against, they'd have to find a new boogeyman or a new line of work.