What can one say about this particular episode of The Real
World: Brooklyn, this pop-music-scored, messy smear of
patriotism and war protest and voting frenzy? Not much, really.
But let's try anyway.  Everyone was Hope-Hope-Hopey about
Election Day. Devyn gave us an important lecture on what black
people are, while Chet motorboated a picture of Mitt Romney and
said something about the economy. You know what Mitt Romney is
qualified to do? Enter a Square Jaw contest at the annual Provo
Tabernacle Picnic. And come in third. That's what Mitt Romney is
qualified for. Ryan the veteran was an Obama supporter, like
everyone else in the house, except for Chet and the dimbulb
Scott, who was a Republican because he likes sandwiches (his
reasoning made exactly that much sense). So election fever was
blooming, the perfect opportunity for MTV to train its wobbly
cameras on worried, scared Ryan—suffering as he is from some
unseen war wound, a black hole or a pin prick, slowly
hemorrhaging.  He made a student film about bei