Forum Question: the Republican National Convention

I didn’t watch the coverage of the Republican National Convention on television last week and I listened to as little of the pundit commentary on it as I could. Consequently, I didn’t participate in the Watcher’s Council Forum last week in which Council members offered their reactions to Donald Trump’s acceptance speech. I’m also ignoring the Democratic National Convention to the best of my ability and I believe I’m a happier man for it.

The Watcher’s Council Forum is here.

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  • Ben Wolf Link
  • The euro was, is, and always has been an attack vehicle against the dollar. Of course the IMF is in love with it.

  • Andy Link

    I didn’t watch either of them either. It was a lot easier to ignore since I was on vacation and travelling for most of both conventions.

  • steve Link

    It is easy to ignore both even when you are not on vacation. Have zero interest. Wish they both could lose.

    Steve

  • It’s funny you should mention that. Reuters/Ipsos just changed its polling to remove “Neither” from their pre-election polling on the candidates. It was skewing the results too much.

    The conversation in this house on the subject of the election has been interesting. My wife is so concerned about Trump she’s leaning towards voting for Hillary Clinton whom she detests. I don’t want to vote for either of them.

    In the course of our discussions I’ve asked my wife if she recognizes that her arguments are actually an argument in favor of rebellion rather than one in support of Hillary Clinton.

  • CStanley Link

    I’ve pretty much decided to vote for neither of them. I have to admit though that I’m more comfortable doing that if my state stays solidly red, so I suppose that means I want Hillary to lose a little bit more than I want Trump to lose. My rationale, probably more of a rationalization, is that I want to not feel that I enabled either of them to win.

    What is crazy is the degree to which my considerations revolve around trying to decide which of them is more dangerous, in order to decide if I’m morally obligated to vote for one of them against the other. They are each dangerous in their own way- Trump for obvious reasons and Clinton because she has terrible ethics and there is so little to keep her in check. Which is worse? I think the latter but who really knows?

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