Apparently someone has decided that if reason is prevailing in a debate, the best offense to defeat an opponent is primitive rage. In recent health care town hall meetings, loud voices, obscenities and threats have come front and center. If rage can bring about chaos at a meeting perhaps our representatives who are eager to be elected will opt out of the fight. It just might work - it has before ( the pounding on Rostenkowki's car during the debate on catastrophic medical insurance in the eighties culminated in the abandonment of any meaningful health care reform for years).
The power of rage is that it causes the sane to shy away from forums such as town hall meetings which in turn is interpreted as a lack of interest by our leaders.
Rage is the tactic of a bully. We are taught not to tolerate bullies. Isn't it time not to tolerate political bullies? Take away their pulpit! End the meeting! Send them to anger management class. The Constitution grants us free speech not free unbridled rage. Wasn't it the rage of Nazi's that led to disaster for Germany.
As an aside I saw someone wearing a tee shirt proclaiming " Health care is a right, not a privilege". Fortunately no right winger came forth to rip the shirt off her back. Is my rage showing a little?
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