Posted by
The Chopping Block on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:34:18 PM
All the posters who think that yellers and screamers are caused by their misunderstanding of the healthcare proposal are wrong.
The reason that we are seeing such civil discord at the town hall meetings between citizens and politicians is because the average citizen is frustrated with politicians. They feel politicians are arrogant, condescending and two faced. They feel as though politicians have a habit of dismissing you as ignorant when they are answering your question. Politicians have the ability to speak cleverly and charmingly in front of an audience and the average citizen does not. They spend their lives speaking, whereas the average citizen spends his life working at a job that does not involve speaking to large crowds.
In addition, politicians are skilled in pretending to answer the question, but not really doing it.
Therefore, when confronted by a politician who treats audience members like a children (you do not know as much about this proposal as I do), not getting your question answered and muddying up the discourse with rambling side stories that get everyone off the subject, the average citizen becomes frustrated and some of them resort to yelling. It’s their only weapon
Talk show hosts, newscasters and opinion makers are asking all the yellers and disrupters to stop and ask questions and enter into a dialogue. The problem with that is that it will then allow the politicians to sweet talk, double talk, and basically say nothing.
And what is wrong with that you say---Well, then the politicians will never get the message about how angry we really all are about socialized medicine being jammed down our throats.