There is a phrase "Misery loves company" whereby people feeling stressed, depressed, or otherwise just bad, take comfort in knowing others feel that too.

Missouri is pronounced similarly (depending on accent and dialect) to misery though typically it is pronounced more like miz-SER-ee.

Yeah. If it's one person they'll either find a procedural reason to never give them the mic, or let them speak and ignore them, but if there's a significant showing of groups of people they start finding any excuse to sic the cops on a few

Quite the opposite. It has such a heating effect that they argue it's unsafe to hold further public hearings in person and it has now to be on zoom where they have full control who to give a voice to and when to mute them.