DNC Day One: Post Obama "drama" Edition. Unconventional. Yahoo!(Brought to you by Verizon!)
As normal human beings spent their weekends recuperating from the RNC
Actually, "normal" human beings weren't recuperating from the RNC at all. In fact, most "normal" human beings are either starting, or wrapping up, their last Summer vacations before they start the back-to-school slog and are incredibly busy worrying about other things.
"Normal" human beings are something that political journalists, and politicians, don't fully understand.
Most of this is due to the insular nature of America's current ruling class. They isolate themselves in 'political districts' free from interaction with the non-party faithful. Even when they go back to their districts they still only operate in a hermetically sealed bubble of "town halls" and "voter outreach" where they don't actually have to interact with the public.
The result is that they believe, honestly believe, that so-called normal people are the same people with which they interact every day.
But those people aren't normal. They're party loyalists who honestly believe that they have a skin in the game, or they're part of the patronage system who actually do. The beautiful thing about being in the ruling class, and operating in their strata, is that you have lower-level members of the courtesan class who interact with the actual ruled for you.
These people, the politically dependent, watched every minute of the Mistake by the Lake and put a lot of stock into Ted Cruz' refusal to endorse the Bronzed Ego. These people are more likely to view Ted Cruz as either a newly crowned champion of liberty or a modern-day Benedict Arnold who cast aside their precious party for the watery tart that is the nomination in 2020. And these people are actively engaged in social media, which is just about as far as the mainstream media goes to do research these days.
Normal people are at Wal-Mart, buying necessities with an ever-shrinking pot of disposable income. These people are taking the kids to movies, buying clothes, note-books or trying to have one last fun fling on the road.
Normal people are only witnessed by politicians and the media that covers politicians through Internet memes and websites such as People of Wal-Mart who make fun of them.
Normal people, to the ruling class and the sycophants who cover and kowtow to them, are dysfunctional. Which explains why it's always felt that they need the wise and benevolent ruling class to make things right.
Yes, it's arrogance at the highest level, and it's institutional now. The only thing 'normal' about 'normal' people to the ruling class is their need to be corralled and protected from their supposed bad decisions.
The media is so far removed from reality as to be irrelevant to it.
