{"id":485,"date":"2017-04-03T13:53:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T19:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/?p=485"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:38:32","slug":"call-it-what-you-will-indivisible-is-on-point-and-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/call-it-what-you-will-indivisible-is-on-point-and-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Call it what you will, Indivisible is on point and here to stay."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m grateful to Nicole Tieman for her effort to delegitimize the complaints of people who have attended the Sensenbrenner town hall meetings (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sensenbrenner aide: Town hall ‘uprising’ is scripted and doesn’t reflect the people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> March 30 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).<\/p>\n

She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shown that the dissent has clearly touched a nerve.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been engaged in political activity of various kinds for years, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m meeting many new people, newly\u00c2\u00a0 engaged in the governance of their country \u00e2\u20ac\u201d far too many to be accounted for by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scripts.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Indivisible movement has offered legitimate — and apparently effective — ways for people to channel their worry, and occasional outrage, over affairs in Trump’s Washington. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true that people\u00c2\u00a0 — including, presumably, people in Sensenbrenner’s offices — frequently use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talking points\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to help clarify their own thinking. But the surge in citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 concern over bad policies and frustration over ineffective governance is unlike anything I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen. If spontaneous does indeed mean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the word fits perfectly.<\/p>\n

(By the way, among the tips from Indivisible is an admonition to behave in a cordial and dignified way; There are no \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scripts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d calling for disruption. Indeed, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the dissenters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 interest to have as many of their voices heard as possible, and they know it. Note also that disruptions, while unfortunate, pre-date the Indivisible movement, as those who regularly town halls can tell you.)<\/p>\n

If Ms. Tieman is hoping to provide excuses for Rep. Sensenbrenner to forego future town halls, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d better come up with a better reason than legitimate dissent that she finds disagreeable, instead of ginning up tall tales about torches and pitchforks.<\/p>\n

I applaud the congressman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longstanding willingness to attend town halls, and, while I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect it, I would view it as an act of cowardly disservice to his constituents if he hid behind such flimsy excuses such as Ms. Tieman has offered.<\/p>\n

If you, like so many others, are concerned about the turn things have taken since November, join us! You won’t be scripted or incited to riot.
\nBut you will be heard.<\/p>\n

Greg Walz-Chojnacki
\nWauwatosa, WI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m grateful to Nicole Tieman for her effort to delegitimize the complaints of people who have attended the Sensenbrenner town hall meetings (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sensenbrenner aide: Town hall ‘uprising’ is scripted and doesn’t reflect the people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d March 30 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shown that the dissent has clearly touched a nerve. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been engaged in political activity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}