LETTER: Citizens have a new tool to replace tired politics
I don’t believe it serves any purpose to lament the level to which the time-honoured institution of public debate has fallen in the “face-off” between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the US presidential race. Nor do I see any point in amending the rules to try to cure the charade in which they participated. The outcome of this process is fast becoming irrelevant, not only in the US but elsewhere too.
We should all turn off our television sets. Why should we give oxygen to an act of such public disgrace? How would any citizen, after such a direct and vituperative attack, ever be persuaded to support a leader of the other side after election, as is required in a vibrant democracy? All trust has been destroyed. Under either of these banners, no-one would dare trust their neighbour in an opposite camp enough to work together for the common good. Such an action would risk one being used for someone else’s end...
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