"...No, I'm talking about what was going on IN the meeting..."
And so is everyone else.
There are three (3) things going-on in that meeting:
1. Muslims are propagandizing.
2. The Feds are engaging in a photo-op, being seen supporting the Muslims.
3. The People in the audience are calling Bull$hit.
Everything else is mere fluff and background noise to the three main bullet points.
"...I dunno, I just find the psychology fascinating when people would rather stay with their favorite impressions than take the risk on having them tainted with the inconveniences of actual realities."
Or, alternatively, your fellow citizens, who understand the psychology at least as well as you do, in turn, find it fascinating that there exist amongst us, those who are entirely oblivious to the threat-vector aligned with this hybrid political-religious belief system, and who share a naive, dangerous trait or two with the shade of Neville Chamberlain.
It has been nearly 12 years since the 9-11 attacks, but this next-round Cultural Clash (
between Islam and The West) may very well prove to be a
multi-generational thing, and, on such a time-scale,
this thing is just getting started... and The People sense this for themselves without being told by anyone from the Right or anywhere else.
What you are seeing is Popular Rejection of propagandizing on behalf of the hybrid political-religious belief-system on which the Adversary bases his existence, and you are seeing the auto-mechanical Federal egalitarian support for such propagandizing, and Popular Rejection of that unthinking mechanical knee-jerk bureaucratic reaction, and Popular Rejection of the propaganda itself, and Popular Rejection of those dangerous, naive, delusional folk who insist upon providing aid-and-comfort to the propagandists.
You are seeing America beginning to Take Sides in the face of this unwanted multi-generational challenge, and the vast majority are choosing their own kind, to stand with.
And, because that does not fit-in well with your
own range of preconceived notions on the subject (
turns out we all have preconceived notions, including you), you continue to rail at your fellow countrymen for doing what they believe is necessary for us to weather the opening phase of this long, multi-generational Culture Clash.
Your fellow countrymen are not brainwashed nor are they stupid nor blind to the pros and cons of Taking Sides. They are simply more pragmatic and realistic than some others amongst us.
This is all very sad and unfortunate, and most folks of goodwill will continue to remain on-guard against excesses, but, in the final analysis, most Americans are capable of taking a stand, and taking a side, and standing with their own, against the propagandizing of an alien, hostile belief-system.