Jimmy presented the case for Town Hall Citizen
Jimmy Kimmel returned to some airwaves last night. In his monologue he presented why Town Hall Citizen exists.
Last night Jimmy Kimmel returned to some airways after being suspended by ABC. I thought his monologue was humble, funny, self-effacing, and strong. What he didn't do was apologize to ABC and for that I was quite pleased.
Jimmy is still off the air in about 68 markets. Here's his monologue.
At 16:40 in Jimmy talked about what we can all agree on including social security and affordable healthcare, #'3 (Medicare For All) and #8 (Economic protection during sickness, accident, old age, or unemployment) on the Town Hall Citizen list respectively.
Then at 16:58 in Jimmy said spoke to the heart of the matter and why I started Town Hall Citizen:
“Let’s stop letting the politicians tell us what they want and tell 'em what we want”.
Letting the politicians tell us what they want is what Jane McAlevey called “top-down theory of power that treats the masses as audiences of, rather than participants in their own liberation”
Telling politicians what we want is being “participants in our own liberation”.
In 2009 citizens rose to form the Tea Party (which was not a political party), which then took significant control over the established Republican Party. These well organized citizens accomplished this feat with no more than 300,000 active members (Tea Baggers).
The Tea Party told the politicians what they wanted. They were successful. Because the politicians had to listen to them.
What the Tea Party accomplished is repeatable. How? Mobilize. Organize. Citizens come together around a platform. Then demanding that Democratic politicians run on said platform.
C’mon, people. We can do this. People have the power. They just have to use it.
