Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

With the Democratic Convention just finished and the Republican Convention coming up next week, plus a whole bunch of controversy in the US about mail-in ballots, etc, I thought it was time to open a thread to chart MB's own take on the whole pre-election roller-coaster. It's a topic that's worth separating out from the I Can't Believe That News Story thread, imo, even if some of the stories around this first covid-style election fall squarely into the I-Can't-Believe-It category.

If anyone wants to do their research thoroughly, here's the thread that covered the run-up to the 2016 presidential election:- https://www.musicbanter.com/current-...on-thread.html

As I recall, that long, long thread was closed several times during its working life when arguments got heated, so let's play nice this time round, gentlemen!

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.