My take on debate

[DBCowboy]

Yeah, both of them should have been :D

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 Can you imagine just how useless such a debate would have been?!  I can't conjure up a waste of time more empty.  Exactly what could the point be? Who hates or likes one or the other more?  Who can craft the most offensive or most fawning words?  Nearly everything a debater might profess would be off-point and run afoul of any manner of actual meaning except of course, "how I feel."

I would ask (going along with your suggestion) what possible question or statement of premise would be addressed by a 'politician v. politician' as topic debate?  Which is better?  Which thinks what?... 

They are, in this context - clowns, performing for attention, inflating themselves, taking credit for anything they can, casting blame for everything else.  If the point of a debate is to "inform" an audience... what does the audience actually ever learn?  

Hell, even they can't really debate...and  they certainly never have in public, and I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that they have never in their lives actually debated anyone about anything.  Public debates in American politics are wastes of time (thank you producers) made to 'satisfy' egos, and make money.  All the "TV debate" productions are smarmy, 'campaign' events with no actual 'discussion.'  They are NOT EVER actually moderated... just stage 'directed.'

Debating about political personalities has even less value than debating about college sports teams or who has nicer "hair."  There is a real problem in the idea of debate nowadays because of the monetized political theater... and media exploitation...  I would wager that among the people who still think in this world, most have never witnessed an actual debate, let alone a formally constrained and moderated debate.

I prefer to debate something definable, a real thing... not a "show."

We need a Trump surrogate and a Biden surrogate to debate