Tonight I attended a meeting of the Democratic party in my red city in a predominately red state (Florida), the stated purpose was to turn this county blue; the turn out for this meeting was incredible! I talked to any number of people who said that whatever under issues they were worried about, their main objective was to defeat Trump. Then the meeting started. The elected officers of the Democratic Party of my county conducted a business meeting. Now, I understand how board work, have served on a couple. I know about the parliamentary procedure and so on. However, about 30 minutes into this event, people started either talking between themselves (which caused the Sargent At Arms to chastise all like a bunch of rowdy 3 year old kids) or leaving. Yes, leaving. The board meeting continued. At the end, the floor was opened up for social time. There was never any acknowledgement of the people in the crowd that either went to Washington on January 21st or who marched locally. Zip. These were people who expected to be enlightened as to the ongoing fight — protests, marches and the like. I met a woman who said she has about 30 young people looking for cause. She didn’t find it tonight. One woman, who was disappointed and angry about the tone of the meeting (oh, yes, none of the general crowd were invited to say one word), approached the Chair at the end of the meeting about her concerns. Only to be told that she should not chastise said Chair.
I cried on the way home.