Here’s the no-BS answers to the debate questions

If a true “must read” column has been written during this final stretch of the presidential campaign it is the piece by Derek Thompson of The Atlantic who deconstructed this past week’s debate in a no-BS, nonpartisan way.

Thompson notes that presidential candidates cannot present the bare truth to the electorate, instead they must pontificate as if every problem has a presidential solution. What’s needed, Thompson asserts, is “the audacity of bluntness.”

Thompson provides blunt answers to the debate questions about jobs for college grads, gas prices, immigration and more. And he also acknowledges that no candidate would ever give these answers.

Here’s the lead-in to his own Q&A:
“It's considered unbecoming to acknowledge the limitations of presidential power, but those limitations are real. The executive is merely one branch of the federal government, the federal government is merely 20ish percent of the U.S. economy, and the U.S. is merely a slice of globalactivity.”

You can read the rest here.