Please do not confuse what you see on TV with face to face political party functions.<p>I&#x27;ve been invited to speak to a fair variety of Green, Socialist, Democratic, Republican, Libertarian and non-partisan events. There are definitely cultural differences.<p>My Republican hosts have always run polite, organized, on time meetings. If you have the mic, everyone is listening to you.<p>Whereas my own peeps, the Democrats, run meetings quite a bit more loosely. People interrupt, there&#x27;s a lot of shushing, arguing over the rules, people chatting in the aisles, etc. Mostly good natured, but it sometimes drives people like me nuts.<p>I can&#x27;t speak to the Tea Party, Occupy, BLM efforts, since those are after my time. But I imagine they&#x27;re not so different from their precursors, because people are people.