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spasticrobot: A Wende for Our Times; NYC, the GOP and hundreds of thousands of techno-protestors

The Result

And so the stage has been set. Hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions will be arriving in a city full of citizens already hostile to the political party that has chosen to hold it’s National Convention in their city for reasons of emotional manipulation. The police and city officials have set up a number of strenuous and overly aggressive methods of control.

That this event will be anything less than similar to Sterling’s description of the Wende is doubtful. At the very least a very large number of protestors will participate in one of the most varied, vocal and interesting political protests in American history. At the most extreme, the massive disturbance will awaken a number of American citizens to what the Bush administration is really up to and set off a sequence of events that will alter our political landscape.

I don’t actually expect a massive political and cultural upheaval to result from next week’s events but I do expect ramifications of some sort. Perhaps it will begin a series of movements and actions that question our general political system or even just the GOP. Maybe it will unite the people against Bush or maybe it will just show the country and the world that there is a significant amount of Americans that oppose the policies of the Bush administration. Maybe it will just show that enough is enough, the people need a more visceral, honest and realistic interaction with the American political system.

Whatever happens, I know I’ll be watching next week and standing in unison with the people in the streets. Yeah, the ones with the mobile phones, laptops and hand painted signs.

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