Things that are bothering most patriots:
1) Most people who want to side with Bundy against the BLM just for the sake of resisting govt overreach won't, because they have mishandled their counter-mainstream media from the beginning. They also didn't do very well in squashing false rumors about the BLM forming for an attack and other nonsense rumors that some dumbass thought he'd spread around teh interwebz.
2) Join WHAT? Join a bunch of individuals who have never met, who don't know what the other people around them are REALLY thinking and prepared to do, who apparently don't communicate as well as is necessary, all in a tense environment where you could be shot, pursued as a "terrorist," have your family blacklisted or harmed purely because of their relation to you, and the list of bad things goes on and on.
3) The "militias" that made it there...I haven't heard anything that makes me think they were ready for any serious conflict with the fed gov. Militias have been talking the talk for decades, especially the last decade, but people don't have faith in their ability to know what they are doing and be good at it. Ken himself said that the militias put more money into "leveling" their rifles, and apparently put pennies into communication in comparison. If they're competent, the comms would be just as important as their rifles/accessories.
I'm not saying that I have all the info. Maybe some of what I typed above is partially or completely incorrect. However, I WOULDN'T KNOW IT because there hasn't been (from what I've seen) reliable, extensive info broadcasted by non-celebrities showing what we would all like to believe, but don't - that the militia movement has its shit together, they are efficient, Clive Bundy is most definitely within his rights to rebel, and there is a leadership worth standing behind either physically or in other ways (logistics, finances, etc.).