The bar for a Presidential candidacy has been set so low this season that I am not sure that it can be lowered. Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and Carly Fiorina have no business running for office, let alone the highest office in the land. Amateurs gave us the Iraq war fiasco, but these bozos don't think it went far enough! Donald Trump exults in being an ignoramus - and lies so frequently he doesn't recognize reality. Ben Carson is just an Ego attached to a body, and demonstrates that it doesn't take brains to be a brain surgeon. Carly Fiorina wouldn't know the truth if it bit her on the ... wherever.
If there is one thing that Barack Obama did wrong it is that he gave credence to inexperienced pols thinking they could be President. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio don't have a clue what governing means, but because they won one election think that they know how to run a country.
But we can't really blame this parade of horribles on the overweening egos of the politicians - that has always been the case. No, we have to blame it on an electorate that isn't able to discern reality from fantasy. Some of that is engineered, but mostly it is the result of an electorate that doesn't really care. How do we get them to care?
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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