Liz is right!

Skies are cloudy. Ground level air is smokey. Reports are that 80 million Americans are under air quality  alerts. We’re included. If we get lucky, local rainstorms may help clear the air, at least briefly, without lightning strikes igniting local wild fires. Nevertheless, governments worldwide continue to be insufficiently responsive to climate breakdown and too many are allowed to claim it’s all a hoax.

Meanwhile, one of the challengers for the Democratic presidential nomination triggers this question: “At least 100 million people are eligible to run for US president. Why are we left with Robert F Kennedy Jr?” 

No voting for idiots

Photo by J. Harrington

Even the remotest prospect of a 2024 presidential election contest between RFK, Jr and the twice impeached orange imbecile is enough to turn my stomach. That would make “Dumb and Dumber” look like Nobel prize material. Meanwhile, I believe Liz Cheney has nailed it, according to the Washington Post: “Liz Cheney on what’s wrong with politics: ‘We’re electing idiots’” I did a quick scan of the piece and couldn’t find an explanation of why we’re doing that. I have my own suspicion that a good part of the issue is the lack of qualifications required for the job.

Candidates for president must:

•     Be a natural-born citizen of the United States
•     Be at least 35 years old
•     Have been a resident of the United States for 14 year

Ask any well-qualified Human Resources professional, or even Catbert, what they think of the list of minimum qualifications compared to the job responsibilities. A good way to stop electing idiots is to disqualify them from the job. That would be quicker and easier than providing the electorate with the amount and quality education necessary too keep voters from electing idiots.

Now for Instance the Idiot

David Meltzer
1937 – 2016

Now for instance the idiot
who watches through the slit eye
and tilted head

a mouth that smiles without a sense of humor
watch him watching you
and know that he sees you

without smiling

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