Moderation was the biggest issue with the debate. Everyone knows how Trump doesn’t believe in objective reality, so not pushing back on lies is harmful and dangerous.
I know it’s not new that our two options are Genocide Denier, and Guy the Agrees there is a Genocide, but wants to Help Genocide Harder, but it hurts every time they bring attention to it
not all of them, but there are enough that people have tried it on twitter that seemed to have worked and it would be weird if they were real people playing along after arguing
I think I made it 15-20 min in last night. I heard one candidate stumble, sound old, but make a point. Not ideal or reassuring, but something. I heard the other candidate tell nothing but lies and speak with hostility at a 3rd grade level. No substance, just lies and attacks. It’s exactly what I expected, but I still had to go and hurt myself like that. I had to GTFO before I put my face through my monitor.
President Carter explained exactly the situation most Americans are now starting to understand decades ago, the interviewer then asked him why the American people weren’t outraged by this. He said
The moderators were less moderators and more like living sheets of lined paper with the questions printed on them. Human teleprompters with no willingness or ability to engage with the speakers, only desiring to feed them question after question. There was no point to having them there. We traded actual moderation for the semblance of decorum by cutting off a microphone.
I came to posit that if the government doesn’t release the numbers we have a press to do that. Supposed to do that. Used to do that. Can’t tell if even this story tried to do that.
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