The attacks on Ali Velshi's monologue yesterday - "Where's the Party?" are out of line.

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19. I think both "types" are important for their own reasons

Somebody has to know Robert's Rules of Order (or whatever they use) backwards and forwards. Needless to say, you have to have someone that knows the particular institution's rules back and forth. They need people who have insights into ways of bending those rules to their benefit and blocking those who would bend them for their own. I bet there are tons of other things like this. I think all those "behind the scenes" people probably fit into this category.

But we also need people who make noise. People (generally in safe seats) who can go out on a limb to raise awareness of things. To critique. To explain all the stupid shit that is going on, educate us and give us the idea that there are some people in power who see things our way.

The news isn't covering anything right. Journalism sure isn't what it used to be. So we're not getting any truth on the nightly news. But all the fighting can't be deep underwater. We the people need to see some splashes to know something's going on down there. I think (just my opinion) is that maybe people want more of the loud voices right now because we want to be reassured that a fight really is happening. Newsom is great example of that. Somebody is taking it back to Trump. Pritzker too. Bernie's on tour as well. Is that enough?

I suspect many Democrats aren't all as focused in like some DUers and some good talking points for the water cooler at work would be helpful. Stuff you could back up with video, ya know? The loud voices are really helpful for that sort of thing. And for keeping certain questions circulating.

Both sides of the coin are necessary. But I think a lot of this feedback really means we really just want/need to see more splashes.