Btw I think that after yesterday it's important to remember that the debate format, even if it was more moderated this time, is a sort of spectacle, designed to highlight miniscule differences between campaigns. If we take away ElQuackity (and Foolish), it's clear that all the other candidates are divided into two groups with two ideologies. However I think we are all greatly overestimating how different those ideologies are.
The reasons for that are the slight miscommunication between the candidates, the debate format itself, and the purposeful antagonizing from all sides, which is only there for the drama (essential part of the debate process). Cellbit isn't even running for president, he's just there to help Forever. None of the candidates are doing this for power. Bad, Baghera, and Gegg are all assuming that Forever and Cellbit want to be the sole decision-makers, and that is not true. They've also said that they want a council and will listen to everyone, they just don't lead with that, since they can't guarantee it will be possible (which is fair).
On the other hand, Forever and Cellbit question the idea of running for president without actually wanting to be president. What they don't get is that Bad, Baghera, and Gegg believe themselves to be capable of dismantling the system altogether. They're not running to create a government, they're running to prevent it. If they don't run, there will be a government set in place, and they don't want that. It's more of a "if I don't do this, no one else will" kind of situation than anything else. Forever and Cellbit (in the context of this debate, which is dramatised for the sake of the spectacle) also assume that the other party wouldn't use the power given to them or wouldn't have anything prepared. That is also untrue. The other candidates also want to take advantage of the power to make change, and they do have plans, it's just that stating their personal wishes as plans goes directly against the central ideas of their campaigns (there shouldn't be one person in charge). To remedy this lack of concrete plans presented, they even talked after yesterday's debate and decided to get some ideas of what everyone on the island wants, in order to present them during the next debate.
But here's the kicker: no matter what party wins, there will be a selection of possible changes and a vote, deciding which changes everyone on the island wants the most. The ideas will be the same either way because they will listen to each other either way. That's something all of the candidates (barring ElQuackity and Foolish) want to do. There will also be one (1) messenger, the president, delivering that information to the Federation and requesting those changes (something that is inevitable and written in the rules, but doesn't really hold much meaning in this context, since all the candidates plan on consulting with everyone else).
So essentially what I'm saying is that no matter who is elected to be president, once they are elected, their actions will be nearly identical. They all share common goals, want to include everyone, and at the same time are bound by the same rules. No matter who is elected, the results will be the same. The reason they seem so drastically different is the slight miscommunication between the players and the purposefully antagonising nature of the debate format.
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