well, i managed to avoid watching at least the last two presidential debates. good for me. i'm just counting the days until all the spin and bs stops. honestly, i don't know how anyone could believe what either candidate is saying because they speak mainly in exaggerations and half-truths. i suppose the ideal way to form an opinion is to get information from as many places as possible and then make up your own mind. however, then you would be left formulating your opinion from your own experiences which shape and taint us. so are you really making up your own mind or have you already been manipulated to think a certain way by those already in power? depending on the day you ask me, i don't even think that free will can exist. or if it exists, then it must be almost completely smothered by culture and environment. whatever. make up your own mind.