Presidential Election Truth Table

 

For those of you who may find things like this interesting, I offer a little "computer-ese" to the discussion. Computers may not be taught this way anymore, but in the old days, you spent a lot of time in computer science classes learning about truth tables. After all, that is how a computer works.

Everything inside that black box is about zeroes and ones. The computer is like a gigantic maze of on-off switches. That state of each bit is either one ( for on ) and zero ( for off). The on and off states can easily be mapped on true or false tests.

It is a type of algebra with its own mathematical rules. But it isn't necessary to get into all that here. Your most simple diagram is a two-bit state with four possibilities. Let's map it on to the Presidential Race, shall we? Each candidate is a "bit". It's state is whether or not he is guilty or innocent of the charges.

There are four possibilities for the following two questions: one for each candidate. For Biden, is he a crook? True or False? For Trump, is he a racist? True or false? I chose these questions based upon what the critics of each seem to think is most important question at this juncture.

So there's four possibilities for the two questions.

Regarding accusations in terms of guilt as follows:

                          Biden Trump

......................       F           F        both are innocent

............................ F           T        only Trump is guilty

...........................  T            F       only Biden is guilty

..................           T            T       both are guilty



What if neither question determines the outcome?

That may mean that the "debate" is usually meaningless, as the people's questions aren't being addressed.

Let's assume that the questions indicated above ARE the ones people care about the most. Then the questions should be about nothing else but these two. In order to answer the questions fully, there should be something like a courtroom with witnesses and cross-examinations.

Of course none of this is about the truth anyway. The debate isn't going to do anything but confirm what you already believe. It is designed that way, and executed that way.

If it really was about the truth, I think Trump would win in a cakewalk.