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Debates...? Is that what we are calling them? To even call these sored affairs debates is a gross misrepresentation which falls foul of the English language. The US Presidential debates have turned into staged, clinical, overly regulated affairs that resemble some sort of benign glorified High School debate with TV cameras. What's more, the presenters or hosts of these mock debates fancy themselves as the real stars of the show, ingratiating themselves at every opportunity. But what's worse for America, with free speech currently in the dock, can we afford change the channel right now?

Let's assume these debates are in fact, too controlled to allow freedom of speech. This should not surprise anyone in America. If freedom of speech is not allowed for the average citizen under this present regime, then we should expect that to be the standard across the board. What we see on TV is a mere representation of the system we are living in real life. An average experience of average depth, for an average electorate. America may deserve better but it deserves what it gets. Since the year 2000, people have willfully pressed the eject button, sending their free speech and civil liberties out the window to fight a 'war on terror'.

As you'd expect after 7 years of scandal ridden, fear-mongering government, candidates on both sides are saying nothing, each doing little more than parroting slight variations of the same policies. On the Democrat's side, front runners Clinton and Obama are cow tailing to status quo pro-war and pro-Zionist agendas. The Republican party, aside from Congressman Ron Paul, are running a field of dead horses- all are pro-war, none are fiscal conservatives and are afraid to talk about monetary policy.

Thank God for Ron Paul, who is now well positioned to overtake his field. He's anti-war and he's a fiscal conservative who has actually laid out a real agenda for change. By winning most of the polls so far, his success is proof that people are getting disgusted with the level of control that a small group of elites in this country have over both parties- Democrats and Republicans.

Real debate in the United States has become somewhat of a distant dream, one we can only fantasize about as we catch glimpses of Britain's House of Commons at question time, or cozy up in front of the TV to an episode of Boston Legal. If we still consider ourselves to be citizens in a real democratic republic, then we have got to get our act together and start looking like one.

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