US Presidential Debates Should Include Third Party Candidates

Note: I will be arguing that the idea of there being third party contenders is idealistic, and will have unintended consequences that will have drastic consequences. Contention 1: Unintended Consequences Sub-point A: Too many contenders Political Party Dates of when they were founded America First Party2002 America's Party2008 American Conservative Party2008 American Freedom Party2010 Black Riders Liberation Party1996 Christian Liberty Party*1996 Citizens Party of the United States2004 Communist Party USA1919I Freedom Socialist Party1966 Independent American Party1998 Justice Party2011 Modern Whig Party2007 National Socialist Movement1974 New Black Panther Party1989 Objectivist Party2008 Party for Socialism and Liberation2004 Peace and Freedom Party1967 Prohibition Party1869 Reform Party of the United States of America Socialist Action1983 Socialist Alternative1986 Socialist Equality Party1966 Socialist Party USA1973 Socialist Workers Party1938 Transhumanist Party2014 United States Marijuana Party2002 United States Pacifist Party1983 United States Pirate Party2006 Unity Party of America2004 Veterans Party of America2013 Workers World Party1959 https://en.wikipedia.org... All of these political parties have independent philosophies that Americans would have to take a lot more time understanding. Also, the debates will have to be more organized. There are 31 parties. An ideal situation would be where all 31 parties have one contender. That would mean that there would be 31 political candidates, and there would have to be at least more than 3 debates to actually be able to have an organized debate. There were above 13 Republican candidates right now. Almost all of them that were low in the polls said that they did not get enough time to speak. I can only speculate that the same thing would probably happen if Pro's logic was passed into law. This would have a lot of unintended consequences, and create disorder in debates. We would likely see third party candidates complaining about time and media coverage. This leads me to my next point. Sub-Point B- Media Coverage We all know that the media is has certain bias to certain candidates. This is just a fact. The media can just have a certain bias toward a Democrat vs Republican Debate. They will probably cover the Democrats and Republicans more. For example, many people believe that Ron Paul did not get fair media coverage. http://www.ronpaul.com... "From January 1-August 14, Paul has been a dominant newsmaker in only 27 campaign stories. (To be considered a dominant newsmaker, someone must be featured in at least 50% of a story.) That is less than one-quarter of the media attention generated by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (120 stories), who is the top newsmaker among Republican candidates. And he has received 25% as much coverage as Bachmann, the Minnesota Congresswoman (108 stories). " This is just evidence of media bias. This will definitely happen under a system Pro wants. Jon Stewart does a perfect segment explaining this. Contention 2: Countries with third parties There is much arguing that happens when third parties are allowed to compete and win. An example of this would be Germany before Nazism. There were so many parties before Nazism that nothing would happen in Germany. There were so many parties running that it would split the vote. People grew tired of the fact that nothing was happening to help them. Hitler seemed like a reasonable alternative to them. Nothing was happening to help the common man, and a passionate man comes and looks like he really wants to help. This led to a dictatorship. The dictatorship actually did things to help people, and the people loved the government for this very reason, and forgot about democracy. If Pro values democracy so much, than he should realize that there is a probability of a consequence happening just like this happening to America. My reasoning for this comes from the rise of Donald Trump. Thank you for creating this debate. I look forward to your response.