Asklemmy

43940 readers

534 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

If everyone on this list got to debate, how would you structure the presidential debates? (ballotpedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Would everyone just make a video and people could watch the videos of who they liked best?

I'm guessing that would be like video dating except worse.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] jonwyattphillips@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Instead of news organizations holding general debates, I'd like to see non-political non-profits hold more narrowly focused debates. Can be broadcast by any channel that wants to air it.

Focus on two or three core, interconnected, issues with a few offshoots that are tangently connected.

Invite top thinkers on those specific issues along with the top presidential candidates.

Even if the other invites don't have a shot at being president, it will still force the presidential candidates to try to make valid arguments against or side with people that really know about the issues. The people really should hear these views instead of main candidates just trying to bring their opponent down. And if someone not in the top two expresses something that really resonates with the audience, maybe it gets picked up by a main candidate.