Timothy Birdnow

No.

What test will be used? Who will administer it? Who will interpret the results? Where is the cutoff between fit and unfit?

The article does speak to the way the Left uses sanity as a claim Conservatives are insane and that hearkens back to the old Soviet Union where they used to put dissidents in mental institutions, drug them, use electric shock on them, and otherwise torture them to put fear in anyone else who dared question their leadership. It is a common trick of the Left.

And if we were to put this in place the Left would eventually take it over and abuse us with it.

They have already claimed Trump is unfit for office and should be removed via the 25th Amendment because he is insane. You know they will use that again, and if we had a sanity test it would always go against us, and not the Left.

In my opinion the author, using the nom-deplume of Raw Egg Nationalist, has laid an egg here. While acknowledging the problems he/she/xi has then suggested something that is ripe for abuse.

I agree there should be some standards and those should come before an election - such as age limits, or not allowing immigrants to run. But to say we are going to have sanity tests is putting our faith in the "expert class" which is invariable on the Left because it comes out of universities. Faith in experts is something the Left has always promoted to get people to not use their own gray matter but allow the "best and brightest" to run their lives.

Foolish.

Abraham Lincoln was clinically depressed and, given his ferocity in the war, was a mass murdering butcher to boot. If he had to pass a sanity test there would be reason to believe he'd fail. Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated and his wife ran the government late in his second term of office. FDR was in a wheel chair from polio. Nixon was paranoid. They called Reagan insane, if you remember. We cannot afford to let the "experts" decide who is fit and who is unfit.

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