How will future presidential debates be like years from now?
It seems like people are getting mored dumbed-down over time (because of the media and maybe the water/vaccines/etc. too). Sixteen years from now, will debates be even more dumbed down? Will they be shorter? Will the candidates speak differently and present viewers short videos to make their arguments?
Who knows? We may just be able to watch future presidential debates via hologram from the palms of our very hands or on our vehicle dashboard. Nifty. As the average American work load increases and the average attention span becomes shorter, the utilization of edited "sound bites" and corny campaign catch-phrases will become the standard for future candidates to adhere to, whether they welcome it or not. Few truly informed voters will even bother to fully investigate claims maid by candidates in order to make a truly informed decision. This, in turn, gives demogogues and other opportunists with a hidden agenda to take advantage of not only the shorter attention spans but also general apathy that still remains a problem amongst a huge swath of the voting-eligible public. Thus, it can be said that the problem is not that Americans are uninformed but rather MISinformed about issues that are of deep concern along with the candidates themselves.
As far as "dumbing down" is concerned, many voters then were just as ignorant, if not more so than, many of today’s voters are in regards to the issues pertinent to their respective times. (Of course, it could be due to lack of access to clean water, modern medicine, or to mainstream press outlets such as newspapers, TV/radio, telegraph, etc. that could be attributed to such ignorance amongst our predecessors.) Yesterday’s politicians, much like many of today’s, depended upon a fickle, fearful public to make their rhetoric more appealing.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
We have to make it through the next four yrs first lol
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The candidates will be strapped into laser sensing suits and shoot it out intergalactic style. Ever see that movie Tron? It will be just like that only it will make less sense.
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won’t be long until there both in an octagon ring with no gloves
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I"m hoping with arm wrestling matches or one shot at 10 paces
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More and more lies seem to be getting through.
Most of them coming from McCain…..
I’m not surprised.
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Have you ever seen that Futurama, where both candidates were clones of each other?
But then again, on Futurama the world is one government.
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they will be arguing about Roe v. Wade rights for Robots
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In the future Conan?… Thats right, All the way in the year 2000!!!
Same, Liberals always win according to the media.
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If Obama can do it, so can Paris!
Hilton/Spears for Prez ‘12!!!
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Good question. Only time will tell though.
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I can just hear the next debate where America is screaming cause Obama has favored the blacks for programs and jobs and no one wants to be "politically incorrect" to mention it.
Then someone will be saying, the government is communist now, how did this happen, oh no. Yeah, America is dumbing down.
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The debates, if there are anymore, will be whatever the various camps will agree to. I don’t look for many of them in the future because of the internet.
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They will be very different if Obama is elected cause intelligent people will get busy & creative people will come up something much better than the same old things…I also joke saying I want them to play Jeopardy & I mean the VP having to play so 4 people & I can just picture this on SNL with Palin playing…I wish so much of the time wasn’t spent on McCain bringing up Joe the Plumber, after Obama explained the whole picture McCain acted like he didn’t hear it. Too much time was spent on Ayers & other smears that are just not true.
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probably worse than it is now…more lies. more negativity. more annoying ads. america will have a war against eachother. we’ll call it USA war I. reps against dems.
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Years from now (and actually not THAT long in the future)… debates will have to have numerous translators, for, when the North American Union desolves our soveriegnty into history… the "Presidential Candidates" will be needing to appeal to a wide audience of Canadians, Mexicans, as well as the former "Americans" !!
There’s your "dumbing down" in FULL force aftermath !!
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Who knows? We may just be able to watch future presidential debates via hologram from the palms of our very hands or on our vehicle dashboard. Nifty. As the average American work load increases and the average attention span becomes shorter, the utilization of edited "sound bites" and corny campaign catch-phrases will become the standard for future candidates to adhere to, whether they welcome it or not. Few truly informed voters will even bother to fully investigate claims maid by candidates in order to make a truly informed decision. This, in turn, gives demogogues and other opportunists with a hidden agenda to take advantage of not only the shorter attention spans but also general apathy that still remains a problem amongst a huge swath of the voting-eligible public. Thus, it can be said that the problem is not that Americans are uninformed but rather MISinformed about issues that are of deep concern along with the candidates themselves.
As far as "dumbing down" is concerned, many voters then were just as ignorant, if not more so than, many of today’s voters are in regards to the issues pertinent to their respective times. (Of course, it could be due to lack of access to clean water, modern medicine, or to mainstream press outlets such as newspapers, TV/radio, telegraph, etc. that could be attributed to such ignorance amongst our predecessors.) Yesterday’s politicians, much like many of today’s, depended upon a fickle, fearful public to make their rhetoric more appealing.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
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I would hope they would be face to face, with the moderators and public being more forceful in confronting the candidates, and not let them get away with platitudes, evasions, non issues or generalities. Examples, Rev. Wright, Ayers, is Obama Muslim ? etc etc.
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