The Commission on Presidential Debates should be shut down for their cowardly, stupid failure to hold the Trump side, the Trump family, the Trump fandom to the most basic of health and safety measures in the first Trump event. But they should also be shut down for insisting on holding the second debate with an audience, in person when one of those persons should be in quarantine and in DC in case Trump collapses or dies as a result of being pumped full of steroids while being stuffed with a reportedly unprecidented mixture of drugs which have never been tested for their interactions.
Then there is the even greater danger to us. It is more than slightly possible that Kamala Harris and, or, Joe Biden could be taken out by Covid spread to them at one of these stupid shows. If those who say that these "debates" really don't have an effect in changing minds are right, they are a grotesque and useless exercise based on a phony imagining of the Lincoln-Douglas style of debates when they have absolutely nothing to do with that.
The "debate" show is something that should have been ended or it should have been turned into a real debate in which the candidates actually debated on a question. I'm not an enormous fan of debates, which are actually more of an entertainment than a means of informing people. Their history is more useful for pushing an agenda than doing something more responsible and good than that. I have pointed out, repeatedly, that it is far easier to structure a lie for easy sales to a majority of people than the truth because a lie doesn't have to remain within the confines of reality. I think the showmanship of a debate helps that at the best of times and the more intelligent, the more skilled debater is not guaranteed to be the more honest, the more moral, the one who is presenting more of the truth instead of a carefully crafted and malignant lie. That is one of the stupidest conceits of modern America, that intelligence is necessarily related to morality when it is so often not. I have no doubt that the slick, really well educated prep-Ivy equivalent members of the Trump regime are intelligent, it's as obvious that they are amoral sociopaths and psychotic cultists. Imagine if the TV experienced Trump were one of them instead of a show-biz phony with little intelligence and mere TV honed slickness. Even one like Trump may well succeed in ending democracy, a smart Trump would do it without any trouble, at all.
This modern dog and pony show is an invention of the Kennedy campaign in 1960, they are a TV determined thing. The absurd romance about JFK will probably die with my generation, it's time for younger, more critical and less celebrity addled people to admit it wasn't a good thing for American democracy.
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