Its been at least 10 years since I’ve watched one. They dont even answer the questions that are asked.
Candidates go straight to personal attacks :/
Since they changed the rules where candidates are allowed to address each other its been a slow decline to Jerry Springer status.
Ten years… So that’s essentially two debates:
Clinton v. Trump, 2016 Biden v. Trump, 2020
One might be tempted to believe the problem is more with one bumbling fascist fool and the decay of American democracy than with the format as such.
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.
They’re not debates. They’re ridiculous slapfights that no one cares about.
The debates stopped being controlled by an independent 3rd party and started being controlled by the DNC and RNC.
Simple.
The last real debate was in 1984.
At what point do we start blaming the people for selecting them to run?
If our votes mattered…yes…I’d blame the people.
