Booman recently asked…after the Bill Clinton 2nd night…How Was the Convention Tonight?
I started to write a reply and it grew. So…here’s my long-form answer.
How was the convention?
Very good.
Very professionally produced.
Very, very well received by the mainstream media, all of the members of which are also professional “producers” of media content. Of course…the fix is still in, but even if it wasn’t in they would have reacted positively to this kind of production.
Content?
In the speeches? The usual Dem line, mostly done with real flair. Unca Bill? The pro’s pro. What a salesman!!!
But the real content…the real message…was in the images.
Read on for more.
The RatPub convention’s images were almost all of older, white, middle class-and-above people looking kinda…tired. Like the dinosaurs must’ve looked as they dragged their weary, overweight carcasses to the tarpits. Every time they trotted out someone of color to prove that they are not racists the poor cameramen had to hunt down the approximately 1% of the audience that were not as pale as Romney and do a closeup so’s the media wouldn’t be accused of some sort of anti-RatPub “bias.” Nice.
The DemRats, however? The average age of the delegates looked to be one or two generations younger than that of the Rats, and if you mixed all of the shades of color and ages in the audience in the proportions that were present you’d get…
Well, you’d get almost precisely this:
Barack Obama when he’s not been able to get out in the sun much.
Maybe a tad lighter and a few years younger.
A fairly accurate picture of the America in which I live. Urban America. Traveling America. Multi-racial America. Young America. Working America.
I got yer “message.” Right here!!!
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Dems think they can win with a multi-racial, trans-generational, multi-sexual, multi-class effort over the Republicans’ racist, sexist, anti-youth, anti-non-mainstream sexual persuasion, anti-worker campaign. And I think that they are right, provided another vote fraud or two or twenty doesn’t get in the way. The RatPub Super Pac millionaire/billionaire money and its airtime buying power? If the message in those ads is aimed the way their lame convention was aimed, they may as well just pack it in now and invest alla that cash in some offshore scams. Preaching to the choir…especially if the choir is overweight, tired and really can’t sing worth a lick…is a fairly useless and almost always totally unrewarding occupation.
A truly great NYC musician…Victor Paz, a Panamanian trumpet player who was one of the first people to break the color line in the NYC freelance studio world and was also an amazing latin and jazz musician, someone who taught all of us what it meant to burn with control…once leaned over to a young white player in his trumpet section at a square wedding full of the kinds of people who populated that Republican convention and said “Don’ watch the white people dance. It will ruin your time.” (“Time” meaning “rhythm.” Style. Idiom. Burn.) There was no racism implied in that statement, because in any real dance scene the great dancers are entirely multi-racial. Just a fact of American life. Squares can’t dance and the Republican Party is the party of squares.
So…in honor of Vitin:
“Don’ watch the Republicans do their campaign dance. It will ruin your day.”
That fact alone will produce a Dem win. Add to that the ass-whipping that Romney is going to receive in the debates?
Hoo boy!!!
Watch.
It could even be a landslide.
Watch.
Later…
AG
P.S. Of course…all of the above is about politics, not morality. The Dems are simply running a better game. A much better game. After the victory parties the U.S. will still be a militarily-enforced, economic imperialist power even if some of the bosses know better. Why? They’re stuck with it. Back off the feed trough too quickly and the entire economic and social structure of the country would collapse. Bet on it. And then there would be hell to pay. For real. Bet on that as well. This whole surveillance state/police state thing? It’s not about “foreign terrorists,” it’s about what would happen if this system collapsed internally.
The real “fire next time.”
Let us pray.
It’s coming.
Watch.
AG
I agree with you, AG. Every word.
Watch.
You betcha.
You are RIGHT, Big Guy/Girl (on the intertubes, no one knows if you are transgendered).
Or transmogrified, either.
AG
P.S. You’re a good Dem, right dataguy?
So…why is it important which of the 7+ sexes I represent?
Just askin’ is all…
Unless of course you are looking for my vote.
Which you ain’t getting.
Bet on that.
I would vote for someone who had the vision and character to ask the people of the United States to take a hard hit now (rather than a harder hot later…them chickens are still headed home to roost) and cease accepting a relatively high standard of living that is achieved through militarily-enforced worldwide theft. For someone who would energetically prosecute the war criminals and financial criminals who have gotten filthy rich off of the sufferings of others. Who would strongly support and enforce a change to ecologically correct polices in terms of both the environment and also in terms of human beings. Human ecology, the most important concept of all. No human being wasted; all human beings encouraged to live up to their potential no matter what that potential may be.
Sigh…I guess I’m not voting again.
We came close this time…Ron Paul was right there on a number of levels.
But NOOOOoooo…
Maybe next time.
Sigh…
AG
Well, AG, I would ask for your vote, but you don’t live in my district. Because I am actually running for office.
But I am not self-outing on this venue.
I don’tknow what’s happening, AG. You’re actually making sense.
And as for “Squares can’t dance and the Republican Party is the party of squares”, well:
Exhibit A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-LAbMbEn4
Exhibit B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-LAbMbEn4
And right,it’s not a racial thing. But the real point is, being president of the United States ain’t amateur hour.
So it all comes down to this. the Republicans and the Democrats are exactly the same, except they’re totally different.
You admit it’s about politics, not morality. Absolutely right, it should be about politics, becaues an election is a political act. Except that in this case, the politics IS a fight for morality — a.k.a. distributive justice. And kicking the asses of greedy sociopaths from here to Canarsie.
You are surprised that I am “making sense.”
I always make sense, priscianus jr. In some sense, that is my primary job on earth…to make sense in the midst of the knee-jerkers. This particular sense somewhat agrees with your wishes, so suddenly I’m smart.
Dig it.
Check yourself out.
i didn’t suddenly get smarter. I just ordered some food that you like.
AG
I understand you a lot better than you think. I just don’t agree with you most of the time. Try to have a little humility — and a little sense of humor.
Humility?
I do my job(s) as well as I can. That’s about as much as I can say about myself. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I fail. So it goes.
Sense of humor?
Whadda you, kiddin’ me or what?
AG
I’m not sure about “militarily-enforced” they don’t really need the military. Most people are only to happy to give up their rights so those “others” get jacked.