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14
Liberal Yes Conservative Yes
Debate Score:21
Arguments:11
Total Votes:23
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 Liberal Yes (5)
 
 Conservative Yes (5)

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Is american politics dumbed down?

You're both just a bunch of idiots.

Liberal Yes

Side Score: 7
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Conservative Yes

Side Score: 14

Liberals took over our education system, and we went from one of the top worldwide to not even ranked.

Believe it or not, my generation knew which bathroom to go to without a manual. We just checked inside our pants.

Side: Liberal Yes
4 points

Watch the movie "Idiocracy". We're getting pretty close to THAT. ...............................................

Side: Conservative Yes
4 points

Omg, my husband and I say this every day...or just about. The way people are acting is why we will never get to a unified society like Star Trek, we are heading towards the world of Idiocracy as if we were being chased by a rabid dog on fire.

Side: Conservative Yes
1 point

I completely agree that we are moving towards an idiocracy style society which is no doubt where the creators drew their inspiration from. I don't see how a unified society stands in contrast to this though, especially considering that the renaissance couldn't have occurred without the localized Florentine government of Lorenzo de' Medici.

Side: Liberal Yes
3 points

We only have to look at what was "elevated" to the Oval Office, and the fact that the SCOTUS is still allowing Gerrymandering (NOT a part of the Constitution) to exist and destroy the ACTUAL value of the vote of "WE, the people"! ANYTHING that interferes with that vote, and is allowed to exist confirms the "dumbing down" of our politics! BOTH sides are guilty of this, but the computer age has pushed it far beyond its original ability to damage our democracy!

Side: Conservative Yes
2 points

The Founding Fathers must be turning in their graves at what has happened to the grand ideas in the modern United States. They passed on a Constitution which enshrined noble ideas about democracy but it takes people to implement it. Intelligent, compassionate, and visionary people are needed to represent an informed citizenry as public servants in the three branches of government but this is not happening. There is a coarse boastful narcissist in the Oval Office, Republican servants of the rich in Congress, and an ill-informed public. Even the Supreme Court is mostly composed of Republican yes-men. Did you ever see such a big black lazy lump like Clarence Thomas! It is a Right mess.

Side: Conservative Yes
1 point

Yes, they'd be amazed that slavery is now illegal, men wear panties and makeup and it's normal, witches aren't still burned at the stake, and that black millionaires are pissed at their oppression...

Side: Liberal Yes
AlofRI(3294) Clarified
1 point

Big, lazy PERVERTED lump. If that "controlled SCOTUS does not make Gerrymandering un-Constitutional we will NEVER have another fair, Constitutional election. Goodbye, democracy! Computerization has made it a controlled vote (as in communist nations), the winner can (almost) be predicted in advance!

Side: Liberal Yes