Sittin’ on your @$$ won’t accomplish anything but success for Zero . Guess I won’t be seein’ you at any town halls .
When the town hall venue is only anticipating at most a few hundred attendees total, and they get that many protesters, that gets their attention. The media want to keep the appearance of these groups small so they don’t inspire more uprisings while they work with the politicians to get enough acceptance to keep moving these bills through. They want the bandwagon on their side and the appearance of unexpectedly large protests goes against that.
A truism of business and marketing is that for every customer that complains and makes known their grievances, their are many more who just go away and won’t come back. The same can be true for voters and the angrier a voter, the more likely they are to use that vote against the politician. For every person at these protests their are many more who disagree but don’t have the time or energy to come out. There are even more that are not engaged and can be quickly swayed by the seeing their fellow citizens protesting and finding out why.
You are also right that Congress MUST be expanded to better do it’s job of representing the people. Less staff, more representatives. Tho more people they represent, the less answerable they are to their constituents and the more difficult it is for the voters to be heard over the lobbyists. A bigger congressional class would make the lobbyist job more difficult and expensive as they have to sway more individual votes while competing with the voters for attention.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2312362/posts