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Last night's debate was an abomination, but our entire debate system is a total disaster that fails to advance ideas while manufacturing controversy and made-for-TV spectacle.

They're hurting our politics and leading to candidates like Donald Trump.

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Our debates are professional wrestling. Rehearsed lines and putdowns by actors prepared to gift cable news highlights and ratings-boosting feuds.

There's no emphasis on actual issues, no advancement of ideas, just a big Monday Night RAW-style spectacle that hurts society.
We deserve better than these terrible debates. We deserve substantive discussions, nuanced ideas. And what's more, we NEED those debates, because this flashy, meaningless spectacle has led to a political crisis where spectacle matters over actual debate.
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