It's a tough pill for people to swallow that sometimes it's okay to treat the ruling class -- like, you know, your oppressors -- in ways that you don't think people ought to normally be treated. The same rules cannot apply, bc those rules don't apply to how they treat you.
I think it's okay to subject politicians to a lot of things that I don't think it's okay to do to people in general. As a protester, I've followed political targets around town and disrupted their lives as much as possible. To do this to an everyday person would be unacceptable.
We have to be able to assess the distinction.
I have heard the "how would you like it if someone did this to you" argument many times while making politicians miserable, in order to apply pressure. The answer is that I wouldn't like it at all, but that in their position, I would have it coming. In mine, I don't. *shrugs*
Power dynamics are a thing.
Like I don't think it would be cool, in general, to bang drums outside someone's home and amass large crowds to yell at them bc you disagree about something -- like that would be weird, unless they were, say, the mayor and oversaw the state violence inflicted on the populace.
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