Dem Convention As Psychodrama

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

So the Democratic convention has been about catharsis.

We've been told that this was what Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband, former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton delegates were seeking -- what they came to the Mile High City to get. As if the Pepsi Center needed to be fitted out with more than a thousand analysts' couches -- in addition to Arianna Huffington's meditation-and-yoga oasis just outside the hall.

A lot of us have been wondering for years what function political conventions could possibly serve, now that their nominating role has been turned over to The People -- mainly the people who run political advertising firms and robo-email enterprises. So it's been an exciting discovery that psychological process has filled the void. Let's join the crowd and do some analysis.