Rubio’s Inattention Dumbfounds Audience

Surprisingly enough, Sander’s rhetoric dominated the debate this Monday November 30th. Perhaps it was not specifically the content, but the extent and depth of such that made the difference between candidates. While Sanders offered effective responses, Rubio tended to limit his input to one or two sentences. In several occasions the debate seemed to overwhelm the republican candidate.

In past conferences we have heard Sanders talk about her impetus to work with the Black Lives Matter movement. This time she expanded on recent cases of alleged police brutality. Sanders commented on several solutions, amongst others, further regulation of police training and testing and body cameras, of course. This was strike number one for Jordan Rubio. At first the candidate expressed support toward his opponent’s proposal. Rubio declared that the cameras would be used to restore trust in the police force. Later on, Rubio discussed the invasive nature of medium. Amidst the liberal radicalization of the youth in the United States, Rubio should not allow such instances of confusion about policies that could lead to the tragic loss of our freedoms.

The topic of education was strike number two for Rubio, and one among many others for Sanders. Rubio repeated what had been said before –that education should be narrowed to specific fields and that it should be directed to the promotion of private businesses. The republican candidate seems to have forgotten the purpose of education. Instead of hoping for the intellectual growth of the country, Rubio seems to only have eyes for finance.

The Democrat side was not fine tuned either on this topic. Rebecca Sanders showed support for the Common Core, which would maintain fruitless testing practices and the reduction of education’s importance. The Common Core has generated a series of tests administered throughout the academic life of the student. Schools’ evaluations, children’s intelligence and teachers’ productivity has been based off scores of these tests. The result? Students learn to choose between A, B, C or D, but honestly, that will never make the United States a leading nation in any academic field.

Furthermore, it was not addressed in depth the complications that could come about with a government dictation of what is worth to be learnt and what is not. Sanders mentioned the existence of private schools at some point, but never admitted that these are not necessarily available to everyone. The Common Core limits students’ options to virtually zero in terms of what they want to study.

There were several occasions in this debate where the rhetoric of the candidates supposed a threat to citizens of the United States. Astonishingly, Jordan Rubio was inattentive to these instances and did not stand up for individual rights and freedoms. The presidential election of 2016 seems somewhat duller than a week ago.