I think this is one of those situations where you can’t really win. If you agree to a YouTube (so-called) debate, you are agreeing to participate in an essentially shallow forum in which silly, essentially meaningless real-time graphics are overlaid that show the supposed popularity of any given statement on a second-by-second basis. To paraphrase Newt Gingrich, 10 or 11 people standing passively at microphones, reduced to the level of 40-second answers, standing like a trained seal, waiting for someone to throw them a fish.
But if you don’t agree to participate, you run the risk of being seen as decidedly less hip, a rusty old codger that doesn’t understand nor embrace new concepts in the digital world. You’re not in with the in-crowd.
” If you agree to a YouTube (so-called) debate, you are agreeing to participate in an essentially shallow forum in which silly, essentially meaningless real-time graphics are overlaid that show the supposed popularity of any given statement on a second-by-second basis.”
In other words, don’t pay any attention to the 18-25 crowd. They already vote Democrat.