&gt; I don&#x27;t think protests constitute mobbing.<p>A large group of people surrounding one someone and screaming at them, or barging into events and disrupting them, or spitting on people? That&#x27;s mobbing and it&#x27;s wrong.<p>&gt; But on the whole, I still don&#x27;t see any evidence of there being a problem.<p>Would you feel the same way if it was Tea Partiers doing the exact same things?<p>&gt; To me, tradition and authority warrant no respect unless it can be justified.<p>These traditions are what allow people with strongly varying societal views to coexist peacefully in a large country such as this one. The only alternatives to such traditions are either segregation or civil war.