It should be mandatory that every candidate for any office take a psychiatric test

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by AZgarden

Then we could solve many of these problems with people who are running for office and are not qualifed mentally.

Sweet, I'll be in charge of the testing.

[YourWakeUpCall]

Originally Posted by AZgarden

Then we could solve many of these problems with people who are running for office and are not qualifed mentally.

Psychiatry is a bit of a squishy science, so such a test could be easily manipulate to exclude candidates unfairly. But theoretically, yes, it would be nice to know if someone running for office is a nutjob.

[Seguinite]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

I think that depends on which side you are on.

There were some recently that thought a man that had built a successful empire and who became a Billionaire celebrity business man over the course of decades and a household name round the world and married to a supermodel was an idiot.
There are also some that hold a current politician that has done nothing and has somehow always been on the wrong side of most issues in his near 50 year career feeding at the public trough as brilliant.



I do not think that we need a psychiatric test but a better test would be that any candidate has to prove that for one week they can run a successful Lemonade stand.

That was beautiful.