You seem to be saying that just the act of 'being' is political.

I can't argue with this. If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in Your Hair - seemed very soppy and hippy-ish to us in England. But to a crew cut, aggressively heterosexual, believer in USA policy in Vietnam in the 1960's - it must have seemed loaded with political significance and very confrontational.

Surely the correlate of your position is that as we are embroiled in the political reality ourselves - its very hard for us to judge accurately what is being achieved.