Having to choose between Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg wrangling over “wine caves” and a Young Sheldon rerun is a tough choice.

It’s like having to choose between drinking spoiled milk and Red Bull.

But viewers chose a Young Sheldon rerun as the Democrat debates dropped into a whole new low. 

Last night’s Democratic debate, which inevitably dealt with the recent impeachment of President Donald Trump, drew just over 6 million total viewers for PBS and Politico, according to Nielsen figures. Topics such as the economy, climate change, racism, Afghanistan, and taxing the wealthy were also on the agenda.

That total, which counts the PBS broadcast and the simulcast on CNN and CNN en Español, makes it the least watched debate so far in the current cycle, only just behind the previous MSNBC debate which drew 6.5 million. Last night’s squaring off reached more than 2 million viewers across PBS stations nationwide, and was seen on CNN by just over 4 million people.

Per PBS, the debate live streams across PBS NewsHour’s, Politico’s, PBS’s, and CNN’s digital and social platforms totaled more than 8.4 million viewers.

PBS’s 2 million viewers are a joke. And at a time when most of what’s on television is a rerun or garbage tossed into the churn, the debate still failed.

Debate ratings have been steadily falling from the double digits in June, July and September, to the single digits in October. And now the debates are about to fall through the 6 million mark.

But they’re also getting a lot less interesting.

Aside from Andrew Yang, the “interesting” candidates are off the stage, and everyone is just reciting their memorized talking points.

Most of the country has tuned out.

The debates reached a high of 18 million on the second night of the first set of debates. Now they’re doing a third of that at best.