Took a walk on the dark side tonight [View all]
Posted a challenge to campaign-promulgated wildly exaggerated crowd size estimates in Washington Square. 27,000!! 48,000!!! (Which are, by the way, being reported as news on MSNBC.) Camera crews with ABC-TV estimated 6,500 in the park and 5,000 outside. Look at the shots -- many areas empty, for media or security, or filled with bushes.
For my efforts I got promoted to Brock sock puppet, and new Hillary poster as part-time campaign staff. On my way home I almost got run down by a phalanx of hooua-ing bike-riding boys leaving the rally.
I have a lingering creepy feeling, the same one that made me start posting. The deep misogyny, thinly-veiled violence (or not so thin: "DRAG HER!!!"
, the left's version of Trump fanatics. And their leader. I knew guys like Bernie many years ago, slick talkers with run-of-the-mill lefty views, angry, arrogant, unproductive, entitled. As ever, I am most surprised that all of this is not patently obvious to everyone, especially after the last two weeks. Go know.
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