Dems are Stunned by Town Hall Anger: Here's a Tip: Cut the Condescension

This is an interesting way of looking at some of the shock that is coming out of the Dems at how raucous and angry people are at these Town Halls.

The Democrats are understandably stunned. They and those sympathetic to them do control everything—the White House, Congress, the mainstream media, the popular culture, and elite education. And they still—despite all that power—can’t get the public to pipe down and go along quietly with their planned takeover of health care. What is wrong with everyone? You can sense the anger, the resentment. And the panic.

Face it Dems are just bad at selling things to people who aren't true believers. Part of it is the condescension that they show toward most of middle America and the elderly. Here is the now apocryphal story this time told by Obama at the NH ObamaCare Pep Rally.

"I got a letter the other day from a woman. She said, 'I don't want government-run health care. I don't want socialized medicine. And don't touch my Medicare.'"

Yup, Obama just said that old people are too stupid to know that Medicare is a government run program (that is incidentally slowly going bankrupt and more and more doctors won't take.) This condescension is the kind of thing that makes it hard for them to sell their policies to everyone else. It is like a company saying "you are too stupid to know what you want so you might as well buy what I am selling."

The people have concerns about what this program will mean for them and calling them "angry, hate-filled Nazi hooligans, duped by Glenn Beck and Limbaugh" does not put them on your side. Insulting people has never gotten anywhere but has served to make them oppose you even more.