I Just Can't Watch

 

 

Tonight Republicans will start their national convention and I won’t be watching. Didn’t watch a minute of the Democrats last week. This from a guy who literally watched gavel-to-gavel coverage in years past.  

I just can’t find the enthusiasm watching staged moments…productions instead of live communication. I really liked the demonstrations on the convention floor….the corny speeches made by each state spokesperson voting on the nominees…the balloons falling in a packed convention center. 

I just can’t get into the conventions becoming “Zoom” events.

Washington Post “conservative opinion writer” Jennifer Rubin claims she was so moved by this week’s Democratic National Convention that she cried more than a dozen times during the four night event.

There are therapists for that kind of emotional duress.

I know the pandemic has changed things. It isn’t just the conventions. I’m having trouble with goofy cutouts behind home plate as I’m trying to watch baseball’s mini-season. None of it seems real to me.

I am genuinely interested in who becomes president…I’ll certainly vote, in person, on November 3^rd. There is nothing that will be said at these conventions that will change the way I’m thinking.

…certainly not sanitized and sterile speeches streamed from people’s basements.