Reply #22: I disagree that it's less popular now

[lunatica]

Right now there's an organized and very vocal minority of people who have to be bused into these meetings from other places which shows there aren't that many of them in each community. These loud people are also not speaking for themselves. They aren't thinking about anything relevant because they're just repeating the talking points and doing the kind of disrupting they're instructed to do. It appears to be a lot of people, but it's really not. You also don't get these disruptions in any Republican town halls, because the same people bused into the Democratic ones are being shuttled to the Republican ones.

Obama hasn't lost anyone who he won over with this health issue during the campaign and he won't unless he gives in to the Health Insurance Industry. We may not all be happy with everything he does but he's still our guy.

I also think a lot of Democrats are going out of their way to go to these town halls just to try to make sure the protesters get left outside. I've never been big on going to a town hall because I don't think they're effective the way they were a couple of hundred years ago, but if one were being held near me now I would go just to push back at these shitheads in some way.

I think a lot of people are thinking like this.