Camera Pans of the Republican Convention Crowd Showed almost Exclusively White People — as if to Indicate that History Is Soon Going to Shovel the GOP Out of Diverse America’s Way

© 2012 Peter Free

 

31 August 2012

 

 

After the Republican Party’s display of televised truth deficiency and subliminal bigotry — how Reality-oriented people can take the GOP seriously is beyond me

 

The just ended Republican convention was comprised of an essentially all white crowd, spoken to by a group of cliché-ridden, wall-to-wall Reality-evaders.

 

One would have thought that President Obama’s political weakness would have motivated this group to come up with reasonable plans to show him up.  The Administration certainly left itself open to legitimate criticism from many angles.  Even an un-precocious 13-year old could have made plausibly detailed arguments that alternative policies might work better.

 

Instead, the Republican assemblage substituted nonstop untruths, over-the-top smears, and content-lacking rah-rahs in the place of policy proposals and specifics of even the most minimally workable kind.

 

The Republican Convention certainly spoke to the party’s often irrational base, but it did not to anybody of both color and brain.

 

 

The moral? — Sometimes your eyes tell you the basics of what you need to know

 

The all white crowd told me everything that I needed to know about Republican Party’s only partially concealed bigotry and its obvious irrelevance to America’s diversely populated future.

 

If both American political parties are going to be model the politics Reality-avoidance, I am going to choose the one whose faces at least look like America’s.

 

Essentially, we are confronted with an election based on diversity’s look because fair-minded, honest competence is lacking in either alternative.

 

The national survival question becomes how to force the Democratic Party to confront the facts that it, too, likes to pretend do not exist.

 

What a mess.