Maybe the far right does not have this sort of local organizing presence in Atlanta?

I laughed so hard that my daughter literally just walked into the room to ask me what was so funny after I read this. You do realize what state and region Atlanta is in, right?

I will give you some credit, though: it is true that the City of Atlanta itself (not the metro area with population 6.3M, but the incorporated central city with population 500K) is, for the most part, very Democratic. We definitely have different factions within the city (e.g. socially-conservative black democrats vs. white progressives), but the Republicans in the city are more of the rich businessperson type than the sovcit dipshit type.

As such, things like Atlanta City Council meetings (which is what I was thinking of when I wrote that) and other public meetings within the City really don’t tend to have those sorts of problems to any great extent. Instead, Atlanta’s problem (both “City of” and the metro as a whole) is that the region is very Balkanized and when fuckery happens, it often tends to come in the form of one jurisdiction trying to impose bullshit on another (e.g. the state government fucking with the city, Fulton County fucking with the city, the city fucking with the school system, Cobb County fucking with the Atlanta Regional Commission, the state government fucking with MARTA, etc.). In other words, the far right are represented in other places where they don’t need to disrupt the meetings to get their way.

I guess it’s also possible that other parts of the metro could have enough intra-jurisdictional ideological diversity that they have boards where the “public filibuster” problem outweighs the “censoring public input” problem, but I don’t go to public meetings out in the suburbs (or at the state government level, for that matter) so I wouldn’t know.