We spent most of Monday reporting on these tea-bagging crowds going to Democratic health care town hall meetings to shout down the hosts and shut the events down. It's classic agitprop, very akin to the 'Brooks Brothers riot' down in Florida during the recount.
But where's the other team?
Folks can whine on endlessly about outfits like Freedom Works putting these rackets together. But if the president's plan has any public support they should be able to get supporters to these events too, right? Not to pull the Black Shirt routine but to provide some public demonstration that there's real public support for making reform a reality.
If there is.
So that's the question. Where's the other team?
--Josh Marshall
Thank god for people like nyceve, slinkerwink, firedoglake, others and the Nurses Association for getting arrested on behalf of singlepayer. But beyond dailykos and the liberal blogosphere, no one is getting the message. Instead FOX, CNN, ABC, even the NYTimes, and most of the local newspapers where these astroturf outbursts happened, it was reported as if these rabble rouseres were actual constituents not bused in from corporate health insurance industry lobbying firms.
Apologize for an insufficient diary, but frankly even with the efforts of many kossacks i feel defeated already. We need a better organizing tool. i'm phonebanking and trying to get people to meetings. no one cares or has any time for what is the most important issue. no one even knows that our current track is set to bankrupt this country. how have people gotten so complacent? i'm going to go have a drink meanwhile...
the comments section is free for brainstorming...