Let’s give future presidential candidates a psychological test

After an informal discussion on how Americans could be assured that we will not have a third presidential candidate the likes of another Nixon or Trump, it was decided all future presidential candidates should be “psychologically tested.”

What brought us to this conclusion? Erratic behavior, uncouth language, maliciously dangerous threatening, embarrassing conversations with decent people, and a bad example for our future citizens, American children.

The man has no backbone, but a lot of gall. He is maliciously dangerous in that he inspires like-minded people, who assume you can “buy your way” into anything you want. It is bad enough that he can not get Congress to reconsider leaving 22 million people without insurance coverage, that he considers the American press “enemies of the people,” and that even with control of the House and Senate, the GOP cannot give him what he wants.

For me, as a member of that press for 30 years, with my husband’s family having produced men who worked for five major American newspapers, there is resentment now since he used a TV commercial of himself on the floor wrestling and pummeling a man depicting the body of CNN, as a stand-in for the press!

Some men are having a very difficult time accepting his attitudes. They still see America as a land different from others, where their lives were remarkable, and like their grandfathers, they were to fulfill some special destiny, an attitude passed on to them from descendants, whom they cherished. They do not “feel” that way about the Trump family, since “their values do not appear to be the same.”

This story was originally published July 12, 2017 at 12:18 PM with the headline "Let’s give future presidential candidates a psychological test."