California Forces Trump to release tax returns to get on Nov 2020 ballot

[jberryhill]

22. My favorite is "How about if we require a psychological fitness test?"

Because, yeah, what we need is the "Bureau of Who Is Allowed To Run For Office" which will only be staffed by the highest-minded political appointees.

But I've realized that many people seem to operate under the remaining childlike notion that there are "adults in charge of things" somewhere who make sure all of the rules get followed.

I guess it is sort of a natural thing, since we spend a good deal of our lives as minors within the context of families, schools and other institutions that we simply trust to be under the control of "the people in charge of that sort of thing". From there, they go to work for similar hierarchical organizations where there are still "people in charge of that sort of thing".

They don't realize that once you get into the wider world, things operate on a totally different basis. What people can do is limited only by what they can get away with doing, and that whatever justice there is in the world is a dim circle of light around a flickering candle in a vast darkness.