Living in a one-party city, you see and hear some strange things.<\/p>\n
There’s a conceit on the part of an awful lot of Twin Cities leftists – Democrats, Greenies, and all their various flavors – that “if we just showed Republicans the truth<\/em>, they’d be Democrats!”<\/p>\n That point of view is in full foam as we head toward the GOP Convention this fall. One “local” group plans on putting “huge Jumbotrons” on both sides of downtown – on Cathedral Hill and Harriet Island – to beam videos over the city during the convention<\/a>, apparently to try to convert Republicans.<\/p>\n These, by the way, are some of the same people who fulminate about billboards<\/em> in Saint Paul. Go figure.<\/p>\n And now, says Schmelzer at the Minnesoros Monitor, they plan to try to “Rock some sense into the Republicans”<\/p>\n No, really!<\/p>\n “The Republican National Convention is coming to the Twin Cities in September, and wouldn’t it be a shame if there was no one to play deafening power chords just up the street?” So reads text at the website of ProVention, online homebase for a concert<\/a> planned in Lowertown St. Paul on Sept. 3 and 4 to coincide with the GOP convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n They assure us, of course, that…<\/p>\n …the point isn’t an antagonistic, Noriega-psyops<\/a> kind of thing, but to welcome Republican guests with “music, beauty and rational engagement” (here’s the group’s platform<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We’ll come back to that “noriega” thing in a bit.<\/p>\n The lineup — which may change, “probably in the direction of more and more ginormously powerful”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A quick tangent; I think Americans of all creeds, colors, orientations and parties can unite behind the notion that people who use “ginormous” in any context can and should be shipped to camps in the Mojave Desert.\u00a0 Can I get an amen?<\/p>\n Anyway – out of one corner of their mouth, they say this is no “noriega-like psyop”.\u00a0 And then they say…:<\/p>\n — has elephantine star power: Tapes ‘n’ Tapes,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Scraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch<\/em><\/p>\n Tapes ‘n Tapes.<\/p>\n I, for one, choose waterboarding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Living in a one-party city, you see and hear some strange things. There’s a conceit on the part of an awful lot of Twin Cities leftists – Democrats, Greenies, and all their various flavors – that “if we just showed Republicans the truth, they’d be Democrats!” That point of view is in full foam as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-convention-08","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}