Posted on 08/08/2009 7:28:36 AM PDT by nitzy
Something occurred to me after watching all of the footage of the various town hall meetings and the citizen's vocal reaction to what their elected representatives are doing. These 50 or 100 people are really an insignificant percentage of the congress person's constituents. Unions members, television advertising, slick marketing, ACORN and Obama-bots will more than make up for even a relatively large group of pissed off citizens. Today, each representative has 700,000 constituents. That is not the way it has always been. The framers of the constitution intended that number to be between 50,000 and 60,000. The number of congressional districts always grew with each census. I will let you guess when the congressmen decided they were tired of seeing their individual power diluted every 10 years.(see my comment for the answer) Imagine how much louder your voice would be if your representative was actually a member of your community and your voice only competed with another 50,000 voices. Now, imagine how much harder it would be for an industry or special interest to bribe several thousand congressman than it would be to bribe 435. This would require thousands more representatives but they would in fact be required to REPRESENT or they would soon go back home for good. I would gladly accept 6000 representatives in exchange for 435 tyrants.
For more information see Thirty-Thousand.org
And just think they are terrified of a few brave citizens.
I think the Communists are stoking the hate at the townhalls to get a conservative to snap to violence.
If that occurs, then the leftist regime can control public opinion over us and arrests can begin.
Yep
This is why I fear that the up coming March on Washington is going to be a flash point! Obama will either move so hard against it it will ignite a real revolution or he will use it as an reason to clamp down and lots of us end up in re-education camps!
I think you are wrong.
Most congress persons are used to sleepy, sparesly attended town-hall meetings. Several tens, maybe a few hundreds of angry protesters at every meeting, probably lots of phone calls, faxes and e-mails, that is serious business.
Now, a few of them may well shrug it off and tell themselves that this is jsut “astro-turfed” protests. However, the politically savvy ones know that behind every real grass root protester there are family, friends, neighbours and colleagues. And therefore a few hundreds of real grass root protester that can mean a real threat to their future careers.
Will they dare to take that chance?
More government is NOT the answer.
Not always. The mainstream media has united behind Obama in an unprecedented way. The spin right now is beyond anything I've ever seen.
Honest journalism is obviously a thing of the past...
And how does an ordinay shlub identify that all the protestors were Democrats? If the party affilation is not mentioned, then the perp is a Democrat.
If the perp was not a Democrat, every MSN org would loudly report that fact, and all the MSN talking heads would have endless and boring opinions about the right-wing, nazi, hateful perp.
QED
At least we have some media coverage of the violent aggression toward
the people AND they’re not all on the right.
THERE ARE DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS at these meetings
who want answers.
This is not entirely a left or right thing, like they want you to think.
Yeah, the little Commies have their people in there also.
Yep—it won’t work because “they” are by far superior at dirty fighting than the good guys are.
Remember the British too thought that the Americans fought unfairly.”They” are far more experienced/adept/forceful, etc. in these things.
In the long run, “they” will/have prevail what with more voters/activists, etc. to vote, e.g., democraps, the dead, illegals, etc. all voting at least once!
See Also;
Who the hell is this Alimski guy?
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/gunny-g-so-just-who-the-hell-is-this-guy-saul-alinski/
Of course you have to do everything you can but at some point you need to take a look around and realize that the rules you are playing by, will never produce the results you desire. You may win the battle but you will never win the war for freedom. We no longer live under a governmental system that provides or acknowledges the importance of freedom and we haven't for decades.
I disagree. Already polls indicate that the discontent among the population clearly and strongly is against 0bama care. You seem to want to echo the dem line of a ‘vocal minority’ - when clearly they are in the majority.
You must also not be watching the same videos of these events that I have. I’ve seen citizens making clear statements that the congress critters just didn’t want to hear. They just wanted a room full of ‘yes’ men. Their heavy handedness will only serve to inflame the grassroots even more.
A) “...ignite a real revolution or
B) “he will use it as an reason to clamp down and lots of us end up in re-education camps!”
What is the difference? Either way if that begins, lots of blood will flow - and the Second Civil War will begin - actually it will be the Third, but most of you missed the Second back in the mid 70s and early 80s.
The democrats are attacking a lot of their own now. I know more than a few members of the industrial unions who are madder than hell at the behavior of the democrats and won’t be helping them put down any rebellions.
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