George Rebane
When the schools no longer teach, you can feed their ‘graduates’ any garbage you want; they have no means to tell the difference. The American townhall meeting is a piece of history still alive in a few places, but now totally distorted into national political theater. A townhall meeting was where local people met to discuss local issues and candidates, and make local decisions. In such meetings the low and the high of the community could stand up and make themselves heard equally on the matter at hand. Such meetings usually ended in a vote being taken to resolve some issue – grassroots democracy.
A townhall meeting distinguished itself from a speech or a circuit lecture by an outsider – politician, academic, entertainer – which may or not have involved a Q&A. Such gatherings were more controlled and tightly staged. No one in the past would have mistaken them for a town hall meeting.
Today our political betters are squeezing out the last drops of historical democracy from the townhall label as they spread across the nation to hold these theatrical plays where the fare served is usually pure fiction or outright lies. In spite of this, it is heartening to see some of these meetings get out of hand when the politico-in-charge doesn’t control the audience and their questions.
The people at these meetings who still have the gumption to question and disagree are then called mobs, rabble, and paid lackeys of corporate special interests. Our MSM requires no evidence to pass on as news such assessments from the producers of these townhall theaters.
As an example of the disrepute we hold our political leaders at all levels, in the latest poll/study just published, over 72 percent of Americans believe Obama lied and will raise taxes on the middle class. And this is just one lie out of an outpouring legion. Yes indeed, it’s gonna take a lot of them ‘townhall’ meetings to get the lipstick right on this heard of pigs coming out of Washington.
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