[MichaelCollins]

> You're telling me if I asked 100 people on the street,

Confronting people on the street with questions like this won't give you a representative sample of what people really think. The sort of people who support the system to maintain their class/lifestyle are likely to ignore your question or to perceive your activist intent and lie to you to avoid getting sucker punched by the 'crazy person on the street.'

[voisin]

I think the poster was making the point of doing a survey. Perhaps not set on the actual method of that survey.

[yeeyeeyee]

Yep, I meant #2 from https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_street

Idioms are hard! Want to apologize on behalf of the English language.