For Love of Country

So I’m sitting here this morning rewatching the Democratic National Convention Roll Call, and I’m just weeping for love of country. The Roll Call starts at about 1:20:00. I don’t know how to link that, sorry.

But this is a wake and bake kind of day, and I’m retired and can do things like sit and watch a political convention all day. So take that into account.

I’m watching it on YouTube. As you see above. If you just want to watch it, it’s live-streaming on practically every social platform: YouTube, Facebook, even X.* Even Twitch. That’s how I’ve been watching. It’s great.

I should have mentioned it sooner. But there are still a couple days of convention left, and you can replay it and catch up. No commentary. ZERO spin or slant. Just the actual process of the convention itself. If you’re fed up with the “MSM” for our various reasons, ditch it and watch this beautiful celebration of democracy for yourself.

No overpaid talking heads flapping their yaps, creating their narratives, telling us we didn’t see what we all just saw. And it’s not slow or dull. It moves along at a fine clip. It is a stage production after all, and these people, unlike the GQP, are professionals. Watch it and see the diversity of the United States. This is the real America.

The idea of staging the Roll Call as some kind of geriatric rave was strangely genius. It has a live DJ with the most GenX playlist ever. But people were hyped and it moved along and it was genuinely emotional to see our country actually represented. The party grunts, the people who plan and execute these things, must all be GenX now. If we end up as kingmakers in the background, that seems strangely appropriate, doesn’t it?

I’ll have more to say about the power of live video in the future. But for now, if you’re sick of the media bullshit, watch the process of party-level democracy for yourself. It’s fun.

• I’m not giving those sons of bitches any clicks.