He doesn’t have the right to be this stupid.
In a recent New York Times article, Catie Edmondson documented how Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville flubbed, “basics of the Constitution, World War II and the 2000 election…In his first big interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, misidentified the three branches of the federal government, claimed erroneously that World War II was a battle against socialism and wrongly asserted that former Vice President Al Gore was president-elect for 30 days…Mr. Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach who decisively defeated Senator Doug Jones, a Democrat, last week, gave the remarkable interview to The Alabama Daily News on Thursday after attending orientation for new senators in Washington.”
Our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three branches of government — wasn’t set up that way,” said Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama. “You know, the House, the Senate, and the executive.
He basically just doesn’t have the right to be this stupid. Shouldn’t those presuming to serve by representing their ‘constituency’ know what that Constitution by which they are defined actually IS? Should they not know at least enough U.S. history to encompass WWII? Should there not be some sort of vetting system for those presuming to serve in such a capacity, say a middle-school level essay test on basic tenets of American democracy and history, before even being considered by their party, especially the intellectually impoverished Republican Party, as candidates they can reasonably run? Shouldn’t every serious candidate for Congress have at least a minimum of competence and proficiency in the tenets by which the Union is formed?
How about the basic civics test given every applicant for U.S. citizenship? By that standard, Trump would never have been eligible to run for high office, in a million years. Of course, he would flunk a basic driving test, for that matter — any test at all — and attempts to bone up would have availed him not. He’s uneducable. The Union would have been spared.
Given what goes on with imbeciles wielding massive power over others in America, there have to be some standards put in place — probably in the Elections rules — probably by an experienced jurist like Kamala Harris, who, from her perch as VP, could actually push through some minimal set of standards. Just a basic proficiency test in civics and competency examination. This would vet a host of evils that currently beset the democratic process in America.
For instance, why was a serial bankrupt with multiple law suits arraigned against him, many of them for sexual assault, permitted to run for President of the United States of America? Trump didn’t even qualify for a bank loan at any legitimate bank, forcing him to go to the notoriously disreputable money-laundering brokers for kleptocratic states, Deutsche Bank, for a Russian oligarch-backed, Putin-approved loans, the chits for which are about to be called-in next year. Fortunately, due to the 2020 election of Biden and Harris, this financial and security catastrophe will redound only to his disadvantage, not that of the nation.
