If the Senate and Congress had more Bernie Sanders in office, we certainly would have a better democracy on Capitol Hill. Good job, Senator Sanders! The Senator out in Vermont certainly is sending a clear message to the media, public, and wingnuts that there are townhall meetings of healthcare reform that are civiled unlike what the media has shown on teevee:
Hundreds of Vermonters -- overwhelmingly in favor of health care reform -- Saturday packed spirited but civil town meetings hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a public park in Arlington, Vermont and at a church in Rutland. Both sessions were a stark contrast to raucous town-hall-style meetings in other states that have been disrupted by angry, shouting hecklers.
Sanders' first meeting drew about 600 people to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Rutland, filling the pews inside and spilling over to folding chairs on the lawn outdoors. Another overflow crowd of about 500 jammed into a park pavilion in this town where Norman Rockwell lived and painted his iconic image of a traditional New England town meeting.
At both meetings, Sanders asked the audience for a show of hands if they favored the government making sure that every American has health insurance.
Supporters of a public health care program like Medicare for all Americans clearly outnumbered opponents, but separate lines of Vermonters on both sides of the issue took turns asking the senator dozens of questions.
Watch this [over 3 minute] video from The Burlington Free Press:
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