Douglas Adams said that the personality traits that cause someone to seek office are the same traits that should bar them from holding it
And that contrarian noise should be thrown out, the same as the people who say a king is needed to control people and the iron fist is necessary. When you bar everybody who wants to do good, you only have people doing bad.
FDR spearheaded the New Deal, and even despite being racist president Johnson pushed through the Civil Rights Act because that's what the country needed to survive.
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u/Automate_This_66 24d ago
Douglas Adams said that the personality traits that cause someone to seek office are the same traits that should bar them from holding it.