Mouse, you are entitled to what you believe, but maybe you are only seeing some of it , I understand that you are pretty upset and it might actually be completley true, what you shared and I really feel for you with my heart big time.
Maybe you've just been exposed to a really bad bad meeting. I am not saying that all meetings are rotten, but that is basically what I think you said here, Man I know how bad it hurts to be in one and leave feeling stepped on and character assignated. So true, some of the meeting halls here in W.W. are egocentered rooms of idiots sometimes, But not all the time. I looked and looked and looked and looked in the "printed directory that they publish in this area district of mine , found a great loving, caring , small group. That group I made into "my home group" and thank the higher power. I did get a real sponsor, I really read and re-read and re-read the "Twelve by Twelve," myself, sometimes some days, I get a really different message and I "grow" in the twelve step program. "It works, it really does work."

I. M. me if you want to vent. We can think together about this and I can help ya if you want unsolicited advice. Please accept my apoligies if I was bruske or big mounthed