Resolved: Bernie Sanders would be a better president than Martin O' Malley

Thanks for the extra round. I'm not just dodging, you can ask my opponent for the Nov Beginner tourney - I was gone for two days. So this is going to be pretty brief. First, turns to the aff contentions. I will address my opponent's responses to my points afterwards. For contention 1, there's no impact- O'Malley's stance is solid. O'Malley, unlike Sanders, understands that we need to find a balance between privacy and security. Sanders may care about our rights, but O'Malley understands our safety is important too. In fact, I prefer O'Malley's response, as he at least understands that we have to make sacrifices for protection. So certainly my opponent isn't winning this point, and I'd even say O'Malley's stance is better. For contention 2, the US stance on terrorism is key to preventing extinction. A single nuclear terrorist attack causes arms races, global nuclear war, nuclear winter, and economic collapse. Toon, et al. http://www.atmos... We assess the potential damage and smoke production associated with the detonation of small nuclear weapons in modern megacities. (...) Eight countries are known to have nuclear weapons, 2 are constructing them, and an additional 32 nations already have the fissile material needed to build substantial arsenals (...) A single "small" nuclear detonation in an urban center could lead to more fatalities, in some cases by orders of magnitude, than have occurred in the major historical conflicts of many countries. (...) We also anticipate substantial perturbations of global ozone. While there are many uncertainties in the predictions we make here, the principal unknowns are the type and scale of conflict that might occur. The scope and severity of the hazards identified pose a significant threat to the global community. And, terrorists are close to nukes. http://www.express.co.uk... ISIS says it has already seized "tanks, rocket launchers, missile systems, anti-aircraft systems" " and is now setting its sights on the ultimate dirty bomb. (") "The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wil?yah [powerful friends] in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region. It"s the sum of all fears for Western intelligence agencies and it"s infinitely more possible today than it was just one year ago. And if not a nuke, what about a few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive? That"s easy enough to make." So keeping a strong military is crucial. Extinction comes before all other impacts. http://www.existential-risk.org... Even if we use the most conservative of these estimates, ("), we find that the expected loss of an existential catastrophe is greater than the value of 10^16 human lives. This implies that the expected value of reducing existential risk by a mere one millionth of one percentage point is at least a hundred times the value of a million human lives. (..) One might consequently argue that even the tiniest reduction of existential risk has an expected value greater than that of the definite provision of any ordinary good, such as the direct benefit of saving 1 billion lives. Contention 3 has minimal impact and O'Malley isn't even for exceptionalism - just neutral. No impact on contention 4 either. Plus, most jobs don't need a college - or even a high school degree. http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com... only 57 percent of graduates think college adequately prepared them for work in the real world (...) Of those graduates who say their current job doesn"t require a college degree, 36 percent say they are currently pursuing an advanced degree, and 22 percent say they plan to in the next year. College is good to learn, but it isn't necessary and shouldn't be made free. People won't pay attention if it's useless. For Contention 5, this is an Ad Hominem attack on O'Malley. He still opposes the ruling. Plus Sanders now has a super PAC and has started his own advertising. Just because these two do what it takes to win doesn't mean they don't acknowledge the ruling is wrong. And Contention 6 has no warrant. And to clarify, when I say O'Malley isn't a politician, I mean he emphasize #actionnotwords. That is what his campaign has been about. That is what he has done as governor - pass gun control policies, raise the wage to $10.10 (not 15), repeal the death penalty, and other great things. For all those reasons, I urge you to vote O'Malley, and vote neg. Thank you.