I agree with this concept. However, remember that in 2016, both candidates were colorful, albeit Trump much more so. The bigger issue is the process itself where only creeps get nominated and the people vote for them anyway.
What we need besides the tests and vetting is a "NONE OF THE ABOVE" option.
They are ready do all that, and more. The problem isn't the candidate, the problem is the system doing the testing. Once they pass the test requiring them to go along with the program of managed perception, they're excepted.
Everyone is crooked, one way or another.....
Some are far more crooked than others.
@HippieChick58 agree, however all are anyway. That's the very definition of a politician
Sounds reasonable to me. Can we make it retroactive?
LOL!! Good idea!
So really just Bernie and Stein to choose from.
and Gary Johnson in the last two elections for POTUS
Bernie works for the democrats now. So, seriously?
@SkotlandSkye Gary Johnson, the other Trump? He's so ignorant to world politics he'd made Trump look brilliant.
@William_Mary Seriously
@Surfpirate during a period of one of the worse times in our history while we were financially supporting and arming terrorist groups, engaged in a near complete destruction of what was the largest city in Syria, Aleppo, at that time, do I need to remind you what he said when he was asked what he would do about it? With our government, military, and CIA involved in creating these groups to create a false civil uprising, along with these weapons and terrorist eventually taking them to join ISIS killing thousands of innocent civilians and using them for shields, a presidential candidate by all means needs to know what Aleppo is. It's not an is! It's a where! So when a potential presidential candidate ask, "what is Aleppo" quite frankly, he should have been shot in the head right where he sat! All those factors I mention above in this issue are basic knowledge for a presidential candidate to know of going on around the world. This case was the main story line and had been for weeks. And his ignorance to it was as loud as the bombs doing the killing and the children screaming and crying. This didn't make Gary Johnson go crawl in a hole denouncing his candidacy as it should have. A week later he crawled out onto another news stage and went deer eyed when asked to name a world leader he admired or liked. He was so god dam stuttering paralyzed his running mate sitting beside him had to start flapping his lips. And those that continued to support him then are the very reason we have what we have today. And will have after the next election cycle. Cognitive dissonance and managed perception.
The Victory of ‘Perception Management’
@William_Mary a) I advocated that only Bernie and Jill would pass the test, I made no mention of Gary, others did
b) I am well aware of the disgusting and criminal actions that your government engages in and that the citizenry large supports or doesn't care about so long as the price of gas doesn't go up 5 cents
c) the US government needs to stop involving itself in corporate wars of opportunity and profit for its' corporate sponsors and it is up to the citizenry to do something about it before they wind up in a corporate dictatorship they cannot undo
@Surfpirate I misunderstood your reply. I tied it in with a reply I made and then was addressed by another person. That happens when you provide no substance.