My modest proposal is that we replace debates with hallucinogenic vision quests.

Each candidates drinks the ayahuasca, and then for the next 36 hours we see them cope with their inner demons and show us their true selves.

Each debate, a different hallucinogenic cocktail.

One debate, the candidates spike a branch through their sides, tied to a tree, and for 3 days dehydrate into fever dreams as the infections take hold all on live tv

One debate, the candidates are locked into sensory deprivation chambers, catheterized, and spend a solid week floating in the void.

After a solid month of these debates, each candidate appears again in the public, their psyches shattered and remoulded in new and exciting ways.

One candidate no longer speaks, but only weeps.

Another talks of majestic dead cities rotting on a distant horizon, yet so close he could almost pluck the maggots writhing within

One candidate begins painting