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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.
The first thing you said was the ultimate truth.
One party will never agree to such a test. That disagreement is built-in to the Constitution and our entire republic.
It's both integral and essential. Every democracy must have a continual struggle going back and forth to keep it in balance.
THere's no test that could ever be written that would satisfy both sides at once. And for a fact, we prefer to elect imperfect candidates. Imperfection is seen as a great change agent in our society.
Who decides the criteria that will be used to eliminate candidates? The man I called the worst president in my lifetime until 2021, when he got demoted to second worst, would have passed any psychiatric test with flying colors. Carter was indisputably a highly moral and intelligent man, probably higher on both of those scales than some of our most successful presidents, especially that moral part. Bill Clinton was a successful president but while he was highly intelligent, the guy was a full blown pathological narcissist and sociopath.
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What do these presidents have in common? Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy. When I saw that question posed by University of California Irvine neuroscientist James Fallon, my response was that they were the three most popular presidents of the 20th century.
Now what about Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush? All markedly less popular—each lost his bid for re-election. What I didn’t know is that biographers of each president had been asked to rate their subjects on a standardized assessment of psychopathic traits. Those first three super-popular presidents ranked No. 1, 2, and 3; they were America’s most psychopathic presidents. The three who couldn’t win a second term ranked among the least psychopathic.
Would You Vote for a Psychopath?
This scored our presidents pre-2016 and includes a discussion of the final 2016 primary candidates. My guess is Trump would replace Kennedy as number one on the list.
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...is this some plot to get rid of all politicians?
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