PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES should be legally required to submit to independent, and multiple medical experts who evaluate their physical and mental health AND MAKES THE FULL RECORD OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CHECKUP PUBLIC. Trump will lie as he has lied as his mind dissolves and his ankles look like he has elephantiasis and the goddamned media won't push him on it as they have never pushed Trump on much of anything.
It's absurd that the many millions of those who hold minimum wage jobs have higher requirements in that regard without any presumption of privacy when it comes to private employers but those who want the job of being president get to control the public access to that information.
Our legal system, our laws and what the stinking courts require of private citizens as they exempt those who want to hold the most powerful public offices is a form of anti-democratic corruption. If Joe Biden had health problems that, as Republican-fascists claim were covered up, the solution to that is to require ALL PRESIDENTS TO HAVE INDEPENDENT HEALTH CHECKUPS AND THE FULL RECORD OF THAT MADE PUBLIC. There is no right to privacy when you want that job, holding it is not a right, it is a privilege if you want to put it in those terms but what it is is a public obligation that entails obligations, not rights.
If we survive this shit, the changes are gonna need to be deeper and broader than anything in the wake of Nixon or the Civil fucking War or the Articles of Confederation themselves.
ReplyDeleteIn reading the antifederalists, the best ones predicted a lot of what has happened under the Constitution, especially to those groups who were already subjugated under the law then. I don't think any human system of any kind is reliable to the extent that our Constitutional system is set up to pretend it is. I remember the English podcaster Phil Moore saying that he thought a written Constitution was a lot more dangerous than Britain's unwritten one because it was inflexible and I think he had a good point, though some of the more recent ones, written with a view of the two hundred thirty so years after the U.S. one was written are probably less dangerous than ours has proven to be.
DeleteIf Democrats get the chance and they don't try to strip the Supreme Court of its usurped powers, impose term limits (I'd include age limits like the Catholic Church imposes on Cardinals and Cardinal electors) on them and presidential candidates, and binding ethics rules with prison sentences for "justices" and presidents that violate them, we are doomed.