And Carrier said, "If you are not here, you have nothing else to say."
I would bet good money that this "workshop" is where they get to use the Delphi Technique to "convince" the masses to support their Nazi rules. (Yes, the Delphi Technique is related to Alinsky).
Tampa, across the Bay, has a lot of this mentality too, except when it comes to many of the minority areas where anything goes or is ignored for some unknown reason.
..was thinking of Hegel, myself