Tournament: USC Alan Nichols | Round: 1 | Opponent: Whitman LT | Judge: Justin Green
-core question: how do we make debate a site to create radical 1political change?

In line with realizing debate’s potential, you should support argumentative models that are

-inclusive, constructive, , empowering to individuals ? democratic

INCLUSIVITY is important because Insularity is suicidal and will destroy the activity

Fine 01 - Gary Alan, prof of Sociology @ Northwestern, (2010-07-01). Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) (p. 237). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

Many have commented on the growing complexity of arguments. Unlike high school sports, …... atrophy over time. . . . Once the population of policy debaters and coaches falls below a certain threshold it is unlikely to sustain itself. 30

Constructiveness –

-we should conceive of debate collaborative political discovery – the idea is to come out of each debate with a fuller understanding of our power as sociopolitical agents, advantaged by something that the debate has created

-the alternative is policy debate as warfare:

This Americentric culture of war has seeped into the culture of debate

Fine 01 - Gary Alan, prof of Sociology @ Northwestern, introduction chapter, (2010-07-01). Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) (p. 7). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. )

Of course, the value of …....... of debate in the conclusion, I argue that it fits easily into American culture.

role of debate is to inject ideas into public dialogue

Livingston 12 (Alexander, prof of government at cornell, Avoiding Deliberative Democracy?, Project MUSE)

Making reasons resonate, however, I...............of the status quo to introduce into the public sphere’s circulation

-Livingston, 2007

to our viewers, if there’s a Plan of action, it is this--- we must force the government to restrict the president’s war power to indefinitely detain persons in the United States without due process of law by mobilizing broad-based coalitions to dismantle the military industrial complex’s stranglehold on politics in D.C.

Washington military elites have formed a megalomaniacal consensus about global interventionism --- we have to open up public debate to break down the machinery of the military industrial complex

Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War”

With regard to means,............ then real education just might begin.