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And Then There Were…How Many?
I forget how many, but do they owe us entertainment?
The Democratic Party’s “debate” last night did, I think, what it was supposed to do. For those paying close attention, it continued to winnow the field. On the other hand, I’ve been watching social media comments and it appears to have failed as entertainment.
I usually fetishize putting down my thoughts before I hear what other people have to say. I even turn off the talking heads, because I’ve been writing politics for a long time for Indian country and I consider myself to be in competition with mainstream media — and, no, I don’t call them “lamestream” except when they try to correct course on ignoring Indian country and fall into stereotype.
In this case, I’ve come to the conclusion that the public reaction is probably the story, and it rolls along independent of debating points because the voters generally don’t know how to score debates but they have a perhaps unconscious paradigm of who fits in that big house the slaves built. So who do I think is out after last night?
Julian Castro is out. His swing at Joe Biden about whether he remembers what he said “two minutes ago” would have been gratuitously cruel if it had been true. It was not true, so exactly who was failing to remember or failing to understand?
