Idea for a presidential-debate format: "Prove it."
It's easy: What is the current problem in US-politics? The lies and distractions are coming so rapidly that nobody bothers to write and read corrections of "old news". By the time the lie is discovered, a new topic has emerged and nobody cares about the truth.
Here's my idea for a format:
- Every presidential candidate gets to bring a team of fact-checkers.
- A candidate can challenge the other candidate to prove what he just said.
Right here.
Right now.
You have 1 minute.
You have 10 fact-checkers working for you behind that curtain and if what you said is correct, they would be able to come up with some evidence.
- "Great business-man."
- "Prove it."
- "Foreign-policy experience."
- "Prove it."
- "The statistics are this and that."
- "Prove it."
- "My plan would do this and that for America."
- "Prove it."
- "We have seen an increase in X."
- "Prove it."
The debate wouldn't be a stylish and elegant duel of "he-said-she-said".
It would be an ugly street-fight of "put-up-or-shut-up".
