One side (republicans) does FAR more fear mongering than the other. Its not even a discussion, it's plain fact. That being said, I dont listen to politican speeches. Its made for reactions, not proactiveness.
I miss Howard Stassen's speech at each Republican convention. Also Hoover always appeared and got sustained cheers, but didn't make a speech. I've closely followed politics a decade longer than the NBA. A convention was much different then, a meeting to actually make decisions, not canned decisions. There was a lot to do, so it was on TV 5 days not 4, morning to late night, not condensed into prime time. Now, each plank of the platform is pre-decided weeks or months in advance, in a process then called "smoke-filled rooms" (no one smokes anymore; at least half the adults did then; my mother got up to 3 packs per day). While other states were voting on a plank or issue, delegates from an undecided state would go into a big back room in the football-sized stadium, duke it out verbally, and return to the ongoing vote, supposedly unified. Networks covered those details well, interviewing both sides as they walked back to the crowd.
Both parties are nothing alike....never in history have so many Republicans signed on to support a Democratic candidate. Never has a convicted felon been a party choice for a candidate. It's a false equivalency to have them tied in the bullshit column at this point. Never has a Democratic party been so diverse and so populated with women either. I was bored with the Joe Biden campaign but Harris and Walz have got some fire. I enjoyed the hell out of the convention and I voted for Johnson in the 2016 election ...this year I registered Democrat because they have a more sensible plan and have actual infrastructure legislation and economic progress this time around. I like people with actual convictions that honor the truth. Conservatives need to scrap the GOP and start a new conservative party sans MAGA insanity
Conspiracy monger Jack Posobiec, who invented conspiracy that Hillary Clinton was running a sex trafficking ring from basement of a DC pizzeria that has no basement, and just wrote a book lauded by Don Jr and JD Vance which argues "leftists" are literally not human, has been hanging outside DNC asking women on camera how many abortions they have had. One woman punked him by saying she is going to have an abortion on stage.
