At what point do we start blaming the people for selecting them to run?
If our votes mattered…yes…I’d blame the people.
If the debate were actually a debate, I would consider watching them.
The intelligence squared series is a great example of what a debate could be. I’m utterly disinterested in what talking heads have to say about who won or lost. I want an actual score at the end.
this version of debates is actually reality tv
I mean, debates aren’t just like, whatever we pretend them to be.
They are like, an actual, structured, formatted, moderated thing. There are definitions that are meaningful to these words.
For example: https://opentodebate.org/what-is-the-oxford-style-debate-format/
You poll the audience before the debate begins on the reaction to the thesis. You poll them afterwords. Whichever team changed more minds is the winner.
