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genuine political question:

if you believe in a free democracy, how do you grapple with the fact that the DNC isn’t  having debates for any of its presidential nominees and will likely not allow for a presidential debate? 

i genuinely don’t understand why it seemingly doesn’t bother anyone, regardless of party.

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Yeah. Mostly because the risk of undermining the incumbent’s electoral odds isn’t worth the reward of seeing the marketplace of ideas in action. Parties are instruments of interests that want to win

I’m with you, but I suspect the bother factor is less than odds-are-worse with-debate factor, so no debate

this is the best, most logical answer. thank you. 

so it’s a smart risk-assessment decision, which i get, but also feels weak. imagine if we did that with sports lol.

Of course! Yep, agree it feels weak. Biden’s in a precarious spot. I assume the calculation is something like better to avoid risk of damage offered in a live debate and accept the risk of perceived weakness, which is already a downside he’s managing