‘Try actually fighting’: Democrats face voters’ fury at town halls | CNN Politics
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Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response.

  • @meyotch@slrpnk.net
    0•3 months ago

    Lately my emotions have tended toward anger at the apathetic middle, not the cartoon villains of the Penguin Administration.

    I know it’s a minority view but I blame all this on the nice normal people that thought they had better things to do than pay attention to politics.

    If you do not see the need for aggressive responses to lawlessness, you let this happen and I find you boring.

    • @GraniteM@lemmy.world
      1•2 months ago

      The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. “We ignored Hitler,” he said. “We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all.”

      They thought of the government as “They.” The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.

      Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government