By Dalila Da Silva Lopes
After months of elevated racial tensions and continuous protesting against systemic racism and police brutality, over 200,000 COVID-19 related deaths, and more than 22 million jobs lost during the pandemic, the American people are yearning for leadership, yet on Tuesday night, they turned on their tv’s to watch the first Presidental Debate and witnessed the dumbing down of the American political process in real-time which will have real consequences for years to come.