Waukesha County Town Hall Meeting Analysis

Politics is a part of human nature, an unavoidable part. Even though this is a common characteristic among all human beings, how politics are ran differs among each population. This population could be an entire country or that of a small county in Wisconsin, I attended a Waukesha County Town Hall meeting. I learned a lot from this meeting, but what this meeting specifically taught me about American politics was that there is a severe lack of diversity in those who represent us and also those who participate in public forums. Along with the lack of diversity, there was an alarmingly large sense of ignorance in the council members participating in the debate. I will explain how the location, audience, and council influenced my conclusion about this meeting. This meeting took place in my …show more content…
Not only did some of them not understand the topic at hand, but they were rude and vulgar to each other. Along with this terrible behavior, they also lacked proper representation of the population they were representing. Throughout the meeting as one member of the council asked question to gain more knowledge on the subject at hand, a fellow member said that anyone who did not already understand the policy they were addressing, was dumb. Along with insulting his intelligence this member eventually gave up trying to explain the policy and whispered foul language under his breath. As far as the lack of proper representation, out of the 10 members that attended this meeting, only two were women, and every member was white. The age range was probably the greatest difference between members, as it seemed that members’ ages ranged from about 45 to 70 years old. Thankfully there was at least that variation to get different gender and generational opinions on the topics being discussed, but other than these slight differences, the staff at this meeting appeared to be seemingly