I also want to add that it makes sense for liberals to be angry. They have no power. Trump is in office, for God's sake. A guy who talks about grabbing women and kissing them without warning, who has stereotyped illegal immigrants as thugs and rapists, who has stacked his cabinet with ex-bankers.
Trump supporters don't have such reasons to be angry. They have their guy in the White House. They're getting what they want. What's your excuse for all the rage?
Dear
John Shaw
Liberals are acting out of fear.
I have tried to approach my fellow libs and progressives with the Greens and Dems, and organize solutions around the party structures and leadership, starting on a local scale. So far a handful of Greens have agreed we need to build health care coops on a district level BEFORE trying to expect to get anywhere with universal care on a national scale. Most libs and Dems are taught they have no power and it all belongs to party and govt. So this is a new twist to lobby members to organize resources and "build it ourselves."
Incidentally there are conservatives like Sean Hannity also preaching and lobbying for health care coops as the model to follow!
So these people who have the resources to organize these, shouldn't be fearful or angry, right? Because they do have the power and ability to promote this through their rightwing media as Hannity HAS been doing, right?
But
John Shaw the left and right are so segregated, socially politically and in the media, they aren't hearing or seeing they have the same solutions! the Greens have activists here and there teaching and lobbying for workers and health care coops. Conservatives are saying and promoting the same thing. And they are missing each other because of the crap in the media pitting both sides in yell wars and bullying contests slamming each other's leadership.
So one side gets mad that the libs are "painting Cons as wanting to take away health care and let people die" when in fact, Hannity and the doctors he promotes are arguing for the SAME solutions that the GREENS are arguing for, in terms of locally managed health care coops and not trying to mandate choices top down through federal govt.
The other side gets mad that libs are bashed as "just being against Trump" instead of having real grievances and solutions THAT AREN'T BEING HEARD THROUGH A POLARIZED MEDIA THAT PROFITS OFF MUTUAL BULLYING CONTESTS.
Both sides get incited by the other.
Trump and Congress are still caught in the middle of this, and still passing things that both sides don't like.
John Shaw the same way ACA and mandates that handed health care dollars over to insurance interests and lobbies DIDN'T PLEASE OR REPRESENT the real liberal left that wanted universal care NOT corporate insurance, the current tax reforms AREN'T representing the TRUE conservatives who are finding out it's just a symbolic "first step" but far short of solving problems with overreaching govt. It only addresses the taxes and doesn't solve the problems with govt costing so much in taxes.
So the REAL cons and REAL libs are both having to fight "battles against their own leaders in Congress" still selling out for compromise because they aren't hearing or focusing on solutions that both sides actually AGREE on.
both sides have the RIGHT answer to health care, which is locally managed coops which preserves freedom of choice from govt controls.
but neither side is being heard because of the yell wars and bullying incited by media and party to hype up voters and elections.
So the hype and "anger/fear" based lobbying continues in the media because it sells ads for donors and ratings in the media, and gets people to the polls.
but it isn't about the solutions that would require people and parties on both left and right collaborating on RATIONAL means of accomplishing common goals while resolving common grievances of protecting free market choices, individual freedom of choice, and civil liberties that both libs and cons argue is at stake.