Seeing some of the "town hall" meetings disrupted by protesters opposing Donald Trump's actions as well as the actions of the Republican Congress took me back to 2009 when the nascent Tea Party was using similar tactics to voice opposition to the government bail outs of the financial system as well as to voice opposition to a newly elected President.
It seems to me that belligerence generates more heat than light. Shouting down your representative falls into the same uncivil trap as 8 years before. To paraphrase Michelle Obama, "They went low, we go high!". It also gives people like Alabama Representative Mo Brooks the opportunity to avoid such meetings with constituents, claiming the need for additional security against "anarchists".
The point is, progress will not be made when you start with a shouting match. I am a firm believe in civil dialogue as the best way forward.
What do you think?
