Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Trump supporters and Democrats face off outside debate hall

Debate attendees, leftists and Trump supporters square off outside Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.

Otterbein? Never heard of it.

They're not really squared off. They're on opposite sides of the street and everyone is peaceful.

Breitbart.

The video is an hour but you get the idea in a just a few minutes. 


Signs tell a lot. When signs are clearly professionally printed and groups are carrying the same ones, that tells you the signs were handed out to them. It shows money used by top down organization.

Conversely, when the signs are all hand-printed and poorly done from the standpoint of graphic art design, poor lettering, non-contrasting colors, font selection or inconsistent handwriting, spacing, readability, impact, that tells you the people made the signs themselves. It shows no money used, bottom up self-organization. Grassroots.

Incidentally, that's the thing that surprised me in the film Bat Kid about Make-a-Wish granting the boy a day as Batman assistant with a man posing as Batman, shown on this site previously. The event drew out thousands of supporters through social media. It demonstrated one of the good things about Twitter. And all those people had homemade signs of very high caliber by regular people that did show great graphic art design skill. And that was entirely spontaneous. Whatever else you can say about them, the general citizens of San Francisco are collectively great natural artists. And that shows in their handmade signs. 

1 comment:

ricpic said...

WIN WITH WARREN? Color me unenthused.

But as usual Shakeaspeare said it best when it comes to the low ceiling world of politics: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. At least that's the quote that always comes to mind whenever I start falling into the delusion that these jokers have the answer. Or even an answer. And they are jokers. Every last one of them. Witness how much better off we'd be with a minimal state instead of the behemoth that sits on our heads, courtesy the jokers.