Prez Debate Lacked Civility, Truth-Telling

Kevin C. Peterson
3 min readSep 30, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and President Donald Trump (R) Trade Insults at the First President Debate in Cleveland, Ohio (Photo Credit: Dallas Morning News)

Last night’s presidential debate was not a presidential debate at all. Instead it was cacophonous sound and fury signifying nothing. It was a 90-minute forum full of dispiriting pontifications where two candidates purporting a desire to lead the free world rolled in the mire before the media klieg lights, reducing themselves to acerbic chortling and noxious name calling. It was supposed to be a measured discourse…

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Kevin C. Peterson

Kevin Peterson is founder of the New Democracy Coalition and Convener of the Fanueil Hall Race and Reconciliation Project. He is a social and cultural critic.