The poor performance and miserable result of this debate is not an indicator the format is bad, it is an indictment of our media circus that has given us these candidates in the first place.
This is proof our system is fucked and I hope to god we don’t “fix” this by going back to letting opponents talk all over each other just to put on a good an entertaining show.
The poor performance and miserable result of this debate is not an indicator the format is bad, it is an indictment of our media circus that has given us these candidates in the first place.
This is proof our system is fucked and I hope to god we don’t “fix” this by going back to letting opponents talk all over each other just to put on
a goodan entertaining show.Start an initiative for ranked choice voting
I’d rather have “star” or “approval” voting, but I’ll take ranked choice voting over what we’ve currently got.
Yep. The only reason these two are candidates is because their names ignite anger, and anger gets people to interact. They sell ad space.