The convention experience

After an extremely early day of flying, I finally arrived in Denver, Colorado. Having never been to Denver before, I was armed only with images in my head of what a “Mile high city,” should look like but upon exiting the plane there seemed to be only flat, boring nothingness. The Drive into the city quickly changed as the Rocky Mountains slowly appeared behind a haze of clouds. But anyway, we came to Denver for the conventions, both College Dems, and Democratic National. If anyone is wondering about the state of College Democrats as an organization, I found it to be just shy of ridiculous. Yes it is an organization that has the potential to mobilize voters to the polls but what else can they really do? Yesterday we attended a portion of the elections of the national officers, more than half of which were running totally unopposed yet still required an elaborate introduction speech, an acceptance speech, and then a vote. Honestly, they could run the whole thing on Facebook or some other online medium and save everyone lots of time and effort trying to stay awake. However, the whole affair was not without a few positive notes. There were a lot of good ideas put forward by both the candidates as well as questions asked from the audience. Clearly some of the College Dems understand what is truly important in this tumultuous political age we call the present, and those students will most likely make a difference in the political or social atmosphere later on in life. For now they hide among the overwhelming swarm of mediocrity and absurdness that is par for the course in all things political.

N.H.