The Immutable Truth

As I floated around in my hot tub last night, I thought about a reality television program that I would like to create.  I would call the show The Immutable Truth.  The show would feature two teams: a staunchly liberal team and a staunchly conservative team.  Each week, the team members, as a whole panel, would debate political and social subjects as submitted by a moderator.

Both teams on The Immutable Truth would begin with six members.  Any one member could answer the questions asked and both teams must answer the same question.  If reluctance to answer a question exists, the teams may vote to force one person to answer.  If a team is reduced to two members, they must alternate in answering questions.  The catch to all of the debating is that all answers will be fact-checked.  At the end of each episode, every participant will be assessed for factuality in their statements.  At which time any person is verified to having made six patently untrue statements (as accrued from the very beginning of the show) they are removed from the team and from the show.  The teams are allowed to be imbalanced in numbers.  If all of one team is eliminated, the remaining team members will then debate themselves—each of them will be required to answer the same question in such case.

The show will progress until only one person remains standing.

I suspect that by the time only two or three people remained in the debate you might end up with a reasoned debate—something we have not heard for a very long time.

--Mitchell Hegman