The Republican candidates debate today. US debates are symbolic. Richer in form than in feature. With this Republican kick off at the Reagan library notice the location of the candidates. Behind a retired Air Force Jet. The jet is poised, as the library curator said “as if ready to take peace and freedom to the world.” It is also posed such that the power of the president is obviously based upon military power. And the candidates are set upon a stage in the wake of the jet’s exhaust. What the Air Force calls “prop wash.” [trans. bullshit]
Contrast this setting with the Democrats, who met at a southern state land grant university.