HAVE any Republican lawmakers actually denounced the town hall violence/nazi innuendo?

[nashville_brook]

Seems to me that if the GOP senators on the HELP committee, and the GOP Reps on the House committees can't clearly, visibly and loudly denounce the violence and threats of violence going on in our communities wrt the astroturf marauders, then they need to sit this out.

Either show some sort of civilized and civilizing behavior, or take the bench.

Put another way -- why the hell are we still sucking up the GOP to get their support on this? They're literally declaring war on us in our own neighborhoods. Fuck them. We have solid majorities -- IT'S TIME TO USE THEM.

[csziggy]

1. Not that I have seen even when the talking heads try to pin them down

The Repubs dance around, talk about "free speech" and access to representatives, but only condemn violence when it is Democratic voters and Union workers they can try to blame it on.

[nashville_brook]

3. then they need to be locked out of the process until they can muster some sort of civitas

[Joanne98]

2. NO

[newinnm]

4. What the hell

Whether you agree with it or not its civil disobedience. Something that is a long standing tradition in our country.

[nashville_brook]

5. whoa there cowboy -- calling these trigger-happy wackos back to the barn is a long way

from stepping on anyone's freedom of speech.

[newinnm]

6. How so.

[fascisthunter]

9. from preventing citizens from having a town hall meeting on something...

that effects their livelihood. We are talking about thugs disrupting part of democracy itself. You do NOT harm democracy in order to save it! That's bullshit... you know it, and I know it.

[gratuitous]

7. No, it's uncivil disobedience

The sort of thing that's indulged when done in service to capital, and brings you a dent in the skull when done in opposition to it. And if you need further elucidation on the difference between civil and uncivil, allow me to point you to the citizens who were thrown out of public meetings, arrested or herded into "First Amendment Zones" on the pretext of keeping the peace. In the case of the near riots now going on, we have a vocal group denying everyone else in the room the opportunity to assemble peaceably, and address their governmental representatives.

One is participatory democracy. The other is the antithesis of democracy, more commonly called fascism.

[fascisthunter]

8. thuggery is NOT civil disobedience

[Selatius]

10. Sorry, but townhall meetings predate the American Revolution. Its origin is in England.

Townhall meetings work by having one person at a time ask a question with time given to have the answer given.

That never works properly when you have multiple people trying to either speak at the same time or literally screaming at others.

If you want to scream, organize a protest and march. If you want a discussion, a serious one that addresses issues instead of simply an opportunity to recite talking points, you go to a meeting.