In a just world this man would be president.

I would be in favor of amending the Constitution to make the qualifications for President “Be a natural-born citizen and at least 35 years old, or be a naturalized citizen for at least 35 years”. Maybe if we pull out of this fascist decline we could get that passed in his lifetime.

My father always used to tell me that the reason we don’t have requirements on academic qualifications for political office is that in a democracy everyone should have the same chance to get to govern and on the merit of their ideas and character, and that placing academic rules on governance would create an unfair advantage for the privileged and only further entrench class divisions.

I thought he had a point but was wrong when he was alive, and I think he has a point and is wrong now that he’s dead. Our society is much too complex for people who have no formal education or the capacity for critical thinking to handle governing hundreds of millions of people at a time.

I feel like he had a point, but I feel like I do, too. I wouldn’t mind seeing some form of aptitude test. I mean jeez, you have to take a test to drive a car, but whichever snake oil salesman can decide to plunge the world into war? I don’t know…