It was by all accounts a contentious debate. Many would say the worst in history. The rules of the debate were quickly abandoned, as the candidates sparred over the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, the economy, race, violence in cities across the country, and the integrity of the election, just to name a few topics.
Most of the debate time was spent with the candidates slinging insults at each other and talking over each other, leaving many to conclude these debates are pointless.
There is, however, a valuable lesson to be learned here, and it doesn't have to do with COVID-19 or climate change. It has to do with what wasn't mentioned.
While the politics of the day and the "bright shiny objects" garner attention and take center stage at the debate, the debt clock continues to spin out of control.
What can we learn from a debate?
We can learn that without a Convention Of States, our government will never be fiscally responsible to focus on fixing the debt issue. Instead, our elected representatives will continue to divert attention based on the politics of the day to get votes and then kick the can down the road for future generations to address.
We all know this is a dead end road, but we don't know where it ends. Does it end at $28 trillion, $34 trillion, or $53 trillion in debt? Maybe it ends when we finally hit $1 quadrillion (15 zeros in case you're interested).
Our politicians and news media don't seem to care at all. They focus on the topic-du-jour for clicks and votes. Remember, it wasn't the 4.5 trillion dollar debt that was a giant issue in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton debate. It was about who was more patriotic.
Less than 30 years later, that $4.5 trillion in debt seems like a drop in the bucket, and the patriotism of the candidates didn't change anything.
In the coming years, we will certainly care far more about the mountain of debt that will be crushing our country than any of the topics mentioned in the most recent debate.
Ladies and gentlemen. This is not sustainable. The chart above was created at the start of 2020. In one short year we have passed $25 trillion, gone off the chart, and now stand at over $27 trillion in debt.
This is urgent.
Meanwhile, politicians and the news media have gone silent on the topic, as the politicians fight behind closed doors about another COVID rescue package that will add trillions more to the debt.
What can we learn from a debate? We can learn that it is time for us to rise up and save this great nation from the politicians.
Now more than ever, we need a Convention of States. Without We the People stepping up to intervene, in 30 years the current debt will look like a drop in the bucket.
