• In March 2024 the Supreme Court ruled against the state of Colorado seeking to keep insurrectionist Trump’s name off the state ballot, citing the 14th Amendment Insurrectionist clause.
• The 9 Justices were one block from Congress on January 6th 2021. Trump, Giuliani, et.al. spent 2 months researching ways to overturn his loss in November 2020. The Justices witnessed the culmination of that effort with angry rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence!”. A woman was even shot dead in the hallway of the House! Trump incited that violence in an attempt to stop the vote certification.
• In their interpretation of the Insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, the Trump attorneys masquerading as Supreme Court Justices, in effect, added language to that clause requiring those seeking to enforce it to make and win a court case that would eventually make its way back to the Supreme Court. That ruling caused an insurrectionist to be able to run, win and for 8 months [as of 2025-10-15] occupy the Oval Office, bringing all the chaos the Framers knew to avoid by creating the Insurrectionist Clause.
• The best lawyers must represent We, the People, and Redress the Court immediately. The 9 Justices and 8 billion souls on the planet saw what happened within Trump’s first week: he pardoned 1500 Jan 6th rioters, and had agents hunt down and fire all those in the DOJ who participated in the cases! The People’s lawyers must demand the Court reverse its improper Decision. By allowing insurrectionist Trump to run for President, the 9 Judges violated the Constitution. The November 2024 election was tainted. So, in a “hanging chads” type situtation, the Justices must then (1) vacate the tainted election results; (2) install the legal candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz as the 47th President and VP; (3) declare null and void Trump’s last 8 months of folly and reset the Nation’s dockets back to January 19th 2025; (4) by rights, for failing to issue the highest Decision, resulting in hundreds and thousands of Human and Civil Rights abuses, trillions of dollars in losses to citizens; plus ruining America’s Good Name on the Free World stage, all 9 should resign. Then We the People should hold a special election, interview a pool of eligible candidates and vote for the 9 new members.
• If all this can be done, then those 8 billion witnesses will see how a representative democracy is supposed to work: for the 99%ers who believe in Truth, Justice and the American Way.

A loose end is why not a single Democrat moved to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment on 6 January 2025. They must have agreed not to in advance, or we should have expected some or all of them to perform their sworn duty to do so. Any one of those who could have done this must know the answer to this question but as far as I’m aware, no one has asked it of them.

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It Meets Sanjuro: The first and last scene of a very short movie

Most laws are passed in response to particular situations. Root cause analysis exposes the underlying dynamics that lead to particular situations. Based on these underlying dynamics, we can design fixes that prevent particular situations from arising. The Constitution of the United States is based in large part on British parliamentarian and historian Edward Gibbon’s root cause analysis of, as he entitled it, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It is in this spirit of finding and fixing root causes that the following draft proposals are presented for new or revised Constitutional Amendments. The intent of this list is to express the intent of the amendments, not necessarily their wording.

• Sanity in Public Administration, AKA the Zookeeper Amendment: Screen and bar social predators from any and all positions of resonsibility over human beings, regardless of citizenship or residency status.
  • This Amendment sets a statutory threshold on a standardized psychopathy spectrum beyond which applicants for candidacy, or for appointment or employment to positions granting them any responsibility or authority over others, beyond which they are ineligible for said candidacy, appointment or employment to the subject office, post or position.
  • The tests used to decide such eligibility shall be standardized in accordance with the specifications to be set forth in this Amendment, shall be administered ONLY by federally authorized examiners and executives directly employed by, and reporting directly to, the federal agency established for this purpose, and shall include psychiatric, neuroanatomical and neurodynamical diagnostics that collectively resolve to a single numerical score.
  • Future adjustments to the requirements and specifications of these tests can make them more restrictive but shall never make them less restrictive.
  • Those who fail these tests shall thereby be automatically registered as psychopaths. Prospective applicants who don’t want to risk discovery as such should not run for public or private office or apply to positions of responsibility or authority over others. Private preliminary tests can serve them as predictors of their score on the standardized test, thus providing them with the opportunity to avoid detection and automatic registration as psychopaths.
  • This amendment shall apply retroactively to all existing office holders. Those who choose to opt out of the specified testing, or who opt in but fail the test, must quit and vacate their posts without delay, specifically without more than eight hours to complete the transition, during which their activites shall be actively monitored by armed and specially-trained federal police officers, and shall be restricted to relinquishing institutional equipment and conveying any passwords and access procedures needed by their successor.
  • The effects of this Amendment are expected to militate over time with a proscription against dictatorial business structures, which are exploitable by psychopaths, by denying psychopaths access to governmental power and authority, thus diminishing in turn the severity and incidence over time of psychopathy spectrum disorders in the gene pool.


• Upper Age Limit for Executive Officeholders, dedicated to French President Emanuel Macron, who expressed reservations about a certain 79 year old narcopath holding the nuclear codes.
  • This amendment bars candidates for executive or command offices, including and in particular the Office of the President of the United States, from assuming the duties of said office at a chronological age exceeding 75.
  • It is understood that a physiological rather than a chronological age would make for a better limit, but also that a physiological age limit would be far more vulnerable to cheating. Hence the chronological age limit proposed for the amendment, which is of course subject to revision before enactment.
  • The intent of this amendment is twofold: (1) It confronts the question of mental acuity, competence and age-related cognitive decline. (2) It confronts the question of antisocial behaviors in self-serving individuals near end of life — “If I can’t have it, no one can”. This problem emerged in Hitler in 1945 and is emerging in Trump in 2026. Only the forbearance of more scrupulous enablers prevented action on the scorched-earth sentiments of Hitler.

• Goldwater Overrule, AKA the Zoo Patron Amendment: Overrule the Goldwater Rule, a principle in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) ethical code that prohibits psychiatrists from offering professional opinions on the mental state of public figures unless they have personally examined them.
  • The Goldwater Rule silences psychiatry professionals at moments when society most needs them, and at moments when their education and training stands to confer the maxiumum benefit on society.
  • This Amendment allows psychiatry professionals complete freedom in alerting the public to the presence of social predators in their midst, especially public figures seeking or assuming public office.
  • By way of analogy, a zookeeper with a degree in zoology who notices a leopard on the loose within the zoo grounds should not be prohibited from calling it a leopard in alerting the zoo patrons of its presence among them without having formally examined the animal.
  • In both cases, the alert is of immediate concern to public safety and the predator is unlikely to consent to such an examination, neither at the time of such an incident nor at any time in the future.
  • By the same token, a psychiatrist should not be limited in classifying specific people, regardless of their position or current activities, as to their propensity to align with social predators. It is recognized that each of us falls into one of three categories in this respect, and that stating an opinion as to which category a person occupies can only be construed as a public service to people who may not see this, or who may disagree with such assessment.

• Early Education in Psychopathy: Incorporate psychopathy awareness and practical detection and diagnostic methods into mandatory early secondary education.
  • The life of a psychopath is measured in victims. Anecdotally, they never go more than two weeks after destroying one victim before choosing the next. By the time someone is accosted by a psychopath and becomes their new victim, permanent harm has already been inflicted and worsens over time.
  • This Amendment brings psychopathy awareness to bear in time for it to confer a benefit to the general public.
  • This Amendment equips young students with the awareness, understanding and skills they need to protect themselves from the social predators in their midst, in time for these assets to prevent confusion, cognitive dissonance and permanent harm. By the time they receive this education, many young students will already be subject to bullying methods characteristic of budding psychopaths. They must understand what is being done to them before they begin to internalize these attacks and attribute them to their own shortcomings.

• Voting Districts: US states and territories shall count votes within a single statewide district.
  • WHEREAS voting districts are arbitrary, negotiable, fluid and contentious;
  • SO THEREFORE each US state or territory shall reduce and maintain its vote counting to the tabulation of individual votes within a single statewide district.
  • This Amendment is expected to eliminate the wasted time and effort otherwise taken up in districting, redistricting, suits and countersuits over how vote counting is to be distributed geographically within each state or territory.

• Democracy in Public Administration: Outlaw or impose prohibitive taxes on businesses with dictatorial organization.
  • The proximal goal of this Amendment is to migrate businesses from dictatorial (corporate) to democratic (cooperative) structures.
  • The ultimate goal of this Amendment is to deny to psychopaths an exploitable social structure.
  • This Amendment is expected to militate over time with a statutory threshold on the psychopathy spectrum for access to governmental power and authority, to remove from the social environment the selective advantages of psychopathic behavioral syndromes, thus diminishing the severity and incidence over time of psychopathy spectrum disorders in the gene pool.

• Immunity in Public Office: No public office shall confer immunity of any kind from due application and prosecution of established law, nor shall it act to defer any said application or prosecution.
  • This Amendment ensures that no one is above the law, more specifically that no public officer, employee, contractor or appointee associated with public office of any kind shall be immune from full and immediate application and prosecution of established law, whether or not the basis for said application or prosecution falls under the official charter or official duties of said office, position, contract or appointment.

• Enforcement by US Marshals: US Marshals are exempted from obstruction by the Secret Service.
  • The US Marshals are responsible for the arrest of government officials who act in violation of Constitutional law.
  • The Secret Service are responsible for the physical protection of government officials.
  • Government officials may, upon occasion, violate Constitutional Law.
  • Therefore when the duty of US Marshals to arrest those who violate Constitutional law comes into conflict with the duty of the Secret Service to protect government officials, the duty of US Marshals shall prevail.

• Presidential Self Pardon: Without suggesting that the Founders of this Republic committed any error or omission of reason while framing this Constitution, those subject to the Presidential Power of Pardon shall not extend to the present nor to any former holder of the Office of the President, nor shall it extend to anyone whose pardon under said Power would present the fact or appearance of a conflict of interest.
  • The necessity of this Amendment should stand as a lasting testament to the pathological opportunism of psychopathy spectrum disorders, and to the importance of maintaining the Office of the President as a legitimate office of government, as fully separate and distinct from a psychiatric ward.

• Only Voters can Finance Elections: Overturn the Citizens United decision by resolving that:
  • Money is not speech;
  • Business and government entities are not people;
  • Businesses, institutions and any other substitutes for individuals cannot make political contributions of any kind. This includes Federal, State and Local elections as well as the internal electoral processes of business entities, all of which shall be democratically organized and duly secured against infestation by psychopaths.
  • Those who wish to contribute personally held wealth or assets to political causes must first pass the Constitutionally standardized psychopathy spectrum tests set forth in other Amendments as a condition of said contributions.

• Private Equity Limitations: Private equity firms and other institutional investors shall be prohibited from investing in assets and commodities of general interest to consumers such as housing and real estate.
  • The governing principle is that institutional investment in assets of general interest to consumers inflates the prices and limits the general availability of those assets without contributing value to the general economy.

• Universal Healthcare: Venture forth from these lands and follow the example of any meritorious and fully civilized nation you encounter. Fill in this amendment when you return with a clue from far, far away.
  • The governing principle is that fully-subsidized and comprehensive healthcare is among the most basic of human rights and one of the most basic justifications for civil society.
  • It inures to the benefit of individuals and the society alike and pays dividends in hidden costs that are never incurred.

• Universal Education: Venture forth from these lands and follow the example of any meritorious and fully civilized nation you encounter. Fill in this amendment when you return with a clue from far, far away.
  • The governing principle is that fully-subsidized and comprehensive education is among the most basic of human rights and one of the most basic justifications for civil society.
  • It inures to the benefit of individuals and the society alike and pays dividends in hidden costs that are never incurred.

• Mother’s Choice: Codify the Roe v. Wade decision in a Constitutional amendment.

• Clarify the 2nd Amendment as permitting the establishment and organization of well regulated militias and not individual gun ownership.
  • This will not necessarily limit well regulated militias to State Guard units but it will set standards according to which qualifying militias are permitted to keep armories and control the use and storage of armaments and munitions. Other uses of armaments and munitions shall be similarly restricted to hunting and sporting clubs, which shall be similarly required to meet satutory standards of armaments and munitions regulation, deployment, storage and safekeeping. No individual use or possession of armaments as defined in the 2nd Amendment thus clarified shall be permitted, on the theory that only well regulated militias are inherently capable of fulfilling the intended purposes of the 2nd Amenent, and that individual gun owners as such are capable of firearms training, firearms experimentation, sport shooting and criminal activites to the exclusion of all else.
  • Said militias found liable, in whole or in part, through failure to meet the regulatory standards set forth in their articles of organization and procedural mandates, for individual firearms offenses exceeding a statutory threshold, shall be subject to permanent dissolution. Actions taken under the Constitutional authority, command and control of said militias shall not be subject to the liabilities prescribed under the proscription against individual gun ownership, as such restrictions would be fundamentally at odds with the charter and intended purpose of said militias. Put more simply, Why run a militia that can’t shoot?
  • Prohibit the Federal or National expropriation of State Guard military units. Rename National Guard to State Guard in aid of this prohibition. State Guard units answer to the State Governor and to no one else. This amendment is intented to restore and further clarify the original purpose and intent of well regulated state Militias under the 2nd Amenement as originally ratified.

• Incentivization Reform: Prohibit the operation of any post, agency, business entity or institution whenever and wherever such operation is subject to one or more conflicts of interest. This will do away with the honor system as it is applied to conditions under which office holders are expected to recuse themselves. The conditions of recusal shall be unambigously defined, and when said conditions resolve to indicate recusal, through either a motivational or incentive analysis, by the appearance alone of impropriety or by both, said recusal shall be mandatory and immediate. Failures to self-recuse under this Amendment shall be punishable in proportion to the damage and potential damage inflicted by said failures up to the date and time of actual recusal. No such failures to recuse shall be held attributable under the law to other than the officeholder whose actions, omissions and duty to recuse are subject to this Amendment.

• Responsibility to Act or Resist: Any Member of Congress who fails to fulfill their Oath of Office, either to act when said oath demands action or to resist when said oath demands resistance, shall be deemed irrevocably complicit in the violation(s) demanding said action or resistance.

• Rescission of Judicial Appointments and Decisions:
  • All of the judicial appointments of any President found guilty of impeachable offenses shall upon such conviction be rendered null and void. The judges thus removed shall be thenceforth irrevocably ineligible for any and all judicial appointments and shall, moreover, be barred from further law practice of any kind.
  • All of the Supreme Court decisions voted into law by Justices rescinded under this Amendment shall be irrevocably rescinded except when such rescission is overturned by a two-thirds majority of Congress.

• Government Shutdowns: Penalties
  • Congressional Salary Forfeiture: No member of Congress shall earn salary during government shutdowns and shall irretrievably forfeit any present and future right to such amounts as might have been earned during said shutdowns.
  • Congressional Fines: Members of Congress whose net worth is in the top tenth percentile among their peers shall be fined in the amount of twenty percent of their net worth per week, effective in advance and irrevocably, at the commencement of government shutdowns, until such time as they resign their Congressional membership, which resignation shall be considered irrevocable for the remainder of their unserved term.

• Environmentally-Conscious Information Transfer: Prohibit the use of other than electronic, optoelectronic or similar lightlike transmission technology for the conveyance of information for any purpose or in any context, even such information as might accompany the conveyance of physical goods, except in the form of product labels permanently affixed to said products for the purpose of branding or of instructing their use or of providing internet addresses at which such instructions may be found, or on protective packaging of said products for the express purpose of directing their delivery or return.
  • No government or business entity shall use, nor require to be used, nor permit to be used, transportation services of any kind in the conveyance of information, nor in support of such conveyance in any capacity or for any purpose, nor the use, consumption or expenditure of such natural resources as fuel or rubber that are or have been used in the transportation industry for the conveyance of organisms or physical objects.
  • No government or business entity shall condition the provision of goods, services or employment on the use of transportation services of any kind on the part of customers or applicants in their written application for goods, services or employment of any kind.

• Planetary Defense: The military forces of the United States shall acquire within 5 years from the enactment of this Amendment, and in perpetuity maintain and improve, a comprehensive and massively redundant planetary defense capability enabling the timely, effective and reliable deflection of Earth-crossing threat objects of every kind, prioritizing at first the known threat objects and adding thereafter the most likely among unpredictable threat objects, and shall maintain in perpetuity a state of readiness to activate the ideal chain of redundant defense sequences against any such threat.

• Deluge Readiness: As a backup to planetary defense, disaster management programs addressing cosmogenic deluges shall focus on the readiness of specialized shipbuilding industries to construct wooden arks for general use on short notice. Even in the modern age, wooden arks seem the ideal refuge for the simple purposes of human survival of these events. It is very likely, based on a correlation of the climatological record with regional flood myths from antiquity, in which the specifications for such arks varied as one might expect, that this will not be the first time that humans have developed this capability at scale. The experience of the Older and Younger Dryas deluges circa 12,900 to 9,400 years BCE, grouped in sequence and separated from one another by just a few thousand years, seems to have left in its wake a human society well prepared to react in a timely manner to the Burckle deluge circa 2,900 BCE.

• Electronic Security: Electronic infrastructure improvements shall be planned, developed, improved and maintained in perpetuity against disruptive cosmogenic plasma streams of every kind, prioritizing known threats including catastrophic solar flares, and expanding in due course to more distant threat sources such as explosive stellar transition events in the galactic environment. Said improvements shall be focused initially on the robustness to such events of power generation, power and electronic transmission and computing technology, expanding in due course to the mitigation of, and compensation for, breakdowns in the Earth’s natural solar and cosmic radiation shielding that may be brought about, whether directly or indirectly, by the action of such events.

• Planetary Sabotage: “Planet” means wanderer. The Earth is like a ship, aboard which maritime law prevails; so should corresponding laws prevail over the safety and security of the wandering Earth. Accordingly, planetary sabotage laws shall be enacted prescribing criminal penalties for acts or influence marketing aimed at compromising the safety and security of the planet, or with other intent in spiteful disregard of same.
  • Denial of Anthropogenic Climate Change. After the fashion of Holocaust denial laws in Europe, Congress shall enact, enforce and maintain strict penalties that criminalize the spiteful denial of anthropogenic climate change, especially when such denial is found to be motivated by political or financial interests.
  • Acts of Planetary Sabotage. Knowingly and spitefully shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there is no fire is traditionally cited as illustrating the limits of First Amendment protections of free speech. After a similar fashion, Congress shall enact, enforce and maintain strict penalties that criminalize declarations, acts or influence marketing that pose a real or apparent threat to the present or future safety and security of the planet, or with other intent in spiteful disregard of same, especially when such acts or influence marketing are found to be motivated by political or financial interests.

• Native American Lands: Return ownership of all Native American lands originally granted to indigenous peoples to the Native American tribes to which they were originally granted.

• Department of the Interior: Place an all-encompassing League of Indigenous North American Peoples in charge of the Interior Department. To avert inter-tribal animosity, stipulate only that governance of this Department is to rotate through a randomized sequence of tribes, similar to NATO rules, in which each tribe receives the governance, once and only once, each time through one complete such rotation. After the first rull rotation, the sequence is again randomized for the second rotation, and so forth in perpetuity.
  • This Amendment inverts the prior arrangement in which the Native American tribes fell within the Department of the Interior, placing them instead in collective charge of the Department of the Interior as a League of Indigenous North American Peoples created for, and commensurate with, said reorganization.
  • This Amendment is intended to mitigate the conflicts of interest inherint in the prior arrangement.
  • This Amendment returns the management of lands in North America to their original caratakers, bringing to bear their twenty to forty thousand years of applicable cultural experience.

• Mineral Rights: Relinquish all mineral rights on Native American lands to the League of Indigenous North American Peoples created for, and commensurate with, the reorganization of the Interior Department under said League.
  • This Amendment is intended to serve the purposes of the Interior Department reorganization under the League of Indigenous North American Peoples created for, and commensurate with, said reorganization.

• Hire them or House them: Require all municipalities to house and feed anyone for whom they cannot find or create employment within thirty days of the need arising.
  • This Amendment is intended to eliminate homelessness by shifting the burden of its eradication onto every community in the nation.
  • Those to whom employment is offered but refuse to accept it must be committed to a mental health institution of the sort that were common before the release of the Jack Nicholson movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest but in which the corrupting influences that movie exposes are intelligently and effectively disincentivized.
  • By statutory design, the pathway to discharge leads to employment.

One could respond to the first of these proposed amendments by pointing out that it is unfair to psychopaths but then we’d have to talk about whether cages and zoo enclosures are unfair to predatory cats, which no one questions. Unlike with most animal predators, we need not worry about hurting the feelings of psychopaths because psychopaths have no feelings to hurt. Unlike domesticated animal predators who assimilate as family members, psychopaths are cold-blooded, self-serving social predators for the sake of sport and self-promotion. They destroy innocent lives and bring down civilizations as a matter of deviant instinct and need to be contained. There are people in our midst who know how to handle them. We call them…

Kevin James: Exemplary Role Model for How to Handle Predators

The life of a psychopath is measured in victims. Anecdotally, they never go more than two weeks after destroying one victim before choosing the next. Yet the cages in this communal zoo we call modern society remain open, and we’ve long since normalized the carnage.

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• Those in Category 1 (call them acolytes) are instinctively enamored of such anomalies and are inclined to enthusiastically support them;
• Those in Category 2 (call them skeptics) are instinctively repulsed by psychopaths and other “fraudsters” and are inclined to resist them;
• Those in Category 3 (call them agnostics) either cannot or will not differentiate fraudsters from normal people and always reserve judgment.

Let us therefore pose a solution to the Fermi Paradox in which, over time:

• Skeptics, when left to their own devices, incrementally build social structures aimed at improving the human condition.  The personal and common survival value of these behaviors should be obvious.  Although the mix of socialist and capitalist motives can vary, in a putatively ideal free society the socialist motives build the infrastructure upon which to build capital markets and the capitalist motives generate wealth from which to draw fairly for social services and to further improve the supporting social infrastructure.
• Acolytes episodically commandeer the social structures built up by the skeptics for personal gain.  They do so by building socially vacuous confucio-machiavellian hierarchies on top of the pragmatic social structures built and maintained by the Skeptics.  They do this under the auspices of machiavellian political figures whenever such opportunities emerge, as they are often apt to emerge with or without democratic processes.  These upsets (all them cognotype inversions) always end up straining or collapsing the underlying pragmatic social infrastructure for lack of any common benefit. Whenever their efforts gain them the opportunity, they plunder the social infrastructure in their Machiavellian drive to dominate.
• Meanwhile the agnostics become useful tools by which to bend favor between normal and anomalous candidates within democratic societies or between would-be despots in the absence of democracy, as they have no instinctive attraction or aversion to either type of candidate and are easily swayed.  They are universally courted as what some have referred to themselves after the fact as “useful idiots”.  As a group, they are for this reason perennially immune to political disfavor.

The darwinian selective advantages of each of these three cognotypes and their social niches is clear enough, and the resulting dynamics sort well with the historical record.  It is important to understand the short-term selective value of each cognotype because these are what maintain the demographic balance and whose motivational differences in turn drive the episodic disruption cycle.  Unfortunately with the march of technology, the episodic upsets thus engendered become increasingly dangerous, as the short-sighted acolytes, as perennial champions of vacuous hierarchies, find more and more powerful tools at each turn of the cycle – tools which could be used to set back the underlying tangible infrastructure by leaps and bounds of steadily increasing magnitude.  While a society dominated by skeptics can and often has been envisioned to progress rapidly and progressively, the historical record and the Fermi Paradox sort better with the findings of Babiak & Hare, which find convincing support amid the recent emergence of reliable political statistics.

It is not difficult in hindsight to understand this mix, nor how it came to be given the short-term darwinian selective advantages of each category and the dynamics of their interaction, both of which are plainly visible to anyone who wishes to understand them scientifically.  Less obvious are the lengthy result cycles of the complex social dynamics thus set in motion, which lie beyond the tractability of natural selection.  The process of natural selection is a random one and can’t associate malefactors with end results the way a detective or jury can when, for example, the malefactors succeed over time by making the benefactors fail over time.  Nature can’t select against malefactors it can’t track and has a long history of selecting in favor of highly-evolved predators.  As a result, the host society as a whole either succeeds, fails or drags along in misery with no end in sight.  The episodic self-destruction of social orders is thus beyond the power of nature to select against in a surgical manner that might improve the dynamics going forward, and so it blindly selects instead against the host society en masse, leaving as a challenge for the host society to correct itself if it can.

The pragmatic difficulty in social self-correction arises in reconciling these social dynamics and the players that drive them with the traditional precepts of egalitarian society.  In treating all individuals as equal under the law, we afford in perpetuity to all, regardless of mind category, a license to disrupt forward social progress at the expense of the common good.  The mix is tolerated because the alternative is to confront a problem far more vast and inexorable than most are willing to confront.

Limitations on candidates for office are already in place, such as the requirement for native birth in candidates for the US presidency.  While limitations based on mental health are vulnerable to political interpretation and manipulation, one cannot deny their importance in comparison to the limitations already in place.  What we need, therefore, are criteria of mental health as easily and universally defensible as the criterion of native birth.  Since the Electoral College is obsolete in the internet age for purposes of counting votes, why not repurpose it for the psychological evaluation and underwriting of political candidates using widely accepted quantitative criteria?  The alternative is to place limits on who can vote.  While such limits are not without precedent in US politics, the general approach is fraught with its own disadvantages and is just as vulnerable to political interpretation and manipulation as would be mental health criteria for political candidates.

If people really are created equal then our politics should reflect that.  If nature is found to differ from this perspective, on the other hand, then our political apparatus is duty bound to guard itself against nature’s certifiable anomalies.  While the free press contributes to such safeguards, its inevitable entanglement with politics and commerce marries it to controversy, volatility and sensation over progressive change and pits state-controlled news media against the more purely market-driven news media.  (I challenge the reader to discriminate a third category of news media.)  More socially responsible and legislatable safeguards are needed to avert catastrophic social cycles the likes of which dominate the historical record.  The historical record is, after all, a solidified concrete object lesson, not just a warning.

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1. Democracy extends to your employer.
2. Democracy extends to you as an individual.
3. Company policy extends to you as an employee.
4. You spend more waking hours at work than you do on your own.

Respond to the statement that your experience of democracy is largely controlled by company policy or at the pleasure of management.

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