10-08-2020, 11:05 AM
(10-08-2020, 08:14 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The AP has the next presidential debate cancelled by Trump (right link!). The debate commission wants to hold a virtual debate, each candidate and the moderator in their own studio. This was unacceptable to Trump. It would also allow the moderator to cut off the off candidate when the other has the floor. I was for this sort of arrangement even before Trump caught the bug.
Basically, the President does not want an honest debate. He wants the stage in which he can pummel his opponent by hogging the attention. Things go his way or else. he has always had a take-it-or-leave-it approach in his business dealings, and he has tried to impose that in politics.
Quote:It sort of reflect my thoughts on the whole COVUS response. There is a push to return to normal as opposed to making intelligent responses to adjust to the new threat.
Of course the death rates are anything but normal. That is the big and completely-unwelcome change, and it goes before life can go back to normal (meaning that, among other things, we can attend bars, theaters, and sporting events again).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.