By Carl Davidson LeftLinks Weekly, June 28, 2024 If we had to use brief understatement to describe Thursday night's Biden-Trump debate, we would call it a victory for spectacle and a defeat for substance. But since modern televised presidential debates, by their nature, are always victories of spectacle over substance, we wouldn't be making an appropriate assessment.
Where we the 3rd party candidates on the CNN podium. Not to be seen not to be heard. What a F'd up democracy we have where other candidate voices are censored from the American people. The system is rigged. Trump at least has that right.
Our democracy, such as it is, is the worse among all the advanced countries of the West. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. But there's one thing worse, a Trump in power wiping out even its limited protections. Defeat him.
There will not be peace until the last Democrat is hung with the guts of the last Republican.
Where we the 3rd party candidates on the CNN podium. Not to be seen not to be heard. What a F'd up democracy we have where other candidate voices are censored from the American people. The system is rigged. Trump at least has that right.
Our democracy, such as it is, is the worse among all the advanced countries of the West. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. But there's one thing worse, a Trump in power wiping out even its limited protections. Defeat him.