The crowd roars and ebbs in tune to the intrasingent intensity of the eight performers. Some are fierce and feisty, and others look like they need more coffee as they fight for the spotlight in the yoke of Quicken Loan’s arena. This performance is arguably unique as the performers, rather than harmonizing in tune to one another’s’ acrobatic agilities, they were engaged rather in an unsightly contest that left the audience no choice but to have their attention held hostage to their absurdity.
The 2015 GOP Debates were a display less Barnum and Bailey and more of a post apocalyptic “Greatest Shit Show on Earth,” as even the debacle’s ring leader Megyn Kelly, was mercilessly hostage to tycoon Trump’s dismal discourse of ardent austerity and unfettered misogyny.
Tumbling out of our conservative clown car were a conglomerate of conceited characters, all their musings simmering to a rolling boil on the backburner of the mutant anti-immigration, anti-woman (and frankly, kind of anti-people) rhetoric Donald Trump haphazardly hashed together during the debate eclipsing any attempt at reasonable discussion. The novel sound of a game-show bell chimed in tune to each candidates’ rash response, as if to cue the audience in on the punctuated punch lines each of the ten yahoos would put forth.
Although Kasich and Jeb Bush themselves held on dearly to their slivers of support from LGBTQ and Latino adherents, their attempts at paying homage to civil rights were ultimately eclipsed and pegged by Trumps preceding calls to put the boot down on immigration and civil liberties.
Close to three weeks later, the reconciliatory ripple’s of Trump’s rhetorical war continues on. “Now that I started my war on illegal immigration and securing the border,” tweeted the candidate Saturday, “Most other candidates are finally speaking up.” Perhaps Trump is referring to Rubio’s unconditional opposition to abortion even in cases such as rape, which have since then expounded upon by Ted Cruz and Rand Paul’s harmonized opposition to birthright citizenship.
It’s evident that publicity stunts are increasingly accepted as effective alternatives to comprehensive platforms for the GOP. Education, an institution part and parcel with politics through its contemporary structural degeneration, parallels politics insofar that the phenomenon of spectacle continues to triumph the merits of literacy and rationality. As the GOP candidates one-up one another in a rhetorical arms race, they are not absolved of causing any collateral damage. With hasty coalition-making and hostage-taking, it’s no question that the GOP’s emphasis on shock value poses consequences in a volatile political and economic environment. Unfortunately, in a society where illusion and bravado triumph values of education and intellectualism, its no wonder that values of the latter are becoming marginalized to the sidelines to make room for the political discourse of today’s GOP freak-circus sideshow.
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You helped me visualize the debate, in a sort of tragicomic effect.
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