Interestingly, either the City of Denver or the DNC itself, or both, are trying to sweep away all the homeless people during the week of the Democratic National Convention in August by handing them tickets to movies, the zoo, and the Denver Museum of Nature. More here.
Can you imagine the outrage if the GOP pulled something like this? And rightful outrage it would be, indeed. I suppose it makes sense though. You have to hide all the poor people so they don’t mess up all the hope and change that’ll be occurring at the convention, non?
From the comments:
In 1968, Boss Richard J. Daley, the Democratic Party strongman of Chicago, erected large plywood fences along the routes from the airport to the convention center so that the Democrats wouldn’t have to see the black squalor in his Democrat-run city.
If this isn’t history repeating itself, I don’t know what is.
Hmm. Certainly seems like a new kind of politics, doesn’t it?
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