I really believe that candidates should be fully checked by psychiatrists for any obvious mental health disorders, including blunt stupidity, before they are allowed to run for office. Under that criteria Trump, Musk, Kennedy et al. would have been disqualified at the outset.
I don’t think discriminating against people with mental illness is the way to go. Lots of ppl with mental illness are not fascists or shudders and would be perfectly qualified to serve.
Trump and co have moral failings. That’s the problem, and it’s not something psychiatrists can test for.
What I still can’t go over four years after the fact is how he was able to get away with January 6 with no legal repercussions, come back and be president, and effectively gut our major institutions as we know them.
It’s so clear that there is no “Deep State” doing anything or keeping our institutions afloat. Just people in power who bit by bit made consequential mistakes that led us to the current chaos.
I’m convinced that true democracy is something that has to be built from the bottom up by us and not these leaders. Because what we’re being subjected to now is utterly pathetic. We deserve better, and that’s what keeps me going.
Just a quick reminder that about 20% of the 1.2M Covid deaths were of people ages 30-65.
That's just deaths. It doesn't include hospitalizations or those now disabled by "long Covid".
Let people get the damn shots.
I really believe that candidates should be fully checked by psychiatrists for any obvious mental health disorders, including blunt stupidity, before they are allowed to run for office. Under that criteria Trump, Musk, Kennedy et al. would have been disqualified at the outset.
I don’t think discriminating against people with mental illness is the way to go. Lots of ppl with mental illness are not fascists or shudders and would be perfectly qualified to serve.
Trump and co have moral failings. That’s the problem, and it’s not something psychiatrists can test for.
I seemed to have confused mental health with morality for some reason. No, I have a mental illness and wouldn’t want to be discriminated against.
New subscriber here. This is a phenomenal essay!
What I still can’t go over four years after the fact is how he was able to get away with January 6 with no legal repercussions, come back and be president, and effectively gut our major institutions as we know them.
It’s so clear that there is no “Deep State” doing anything or keeping our institutions afloat. Just people in power who bit by bit made consequential mistakes that led us to the current chaos.
I’m convinced that true democracy is something that has to be built from the bottom up by us and not these leaders. Because what we’re being subjected to now is utterly pathetic. We deserve better, and that’s what keeps me going.