Posted on 02/10/2025 3:24:37 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
If you were going to question a candidate for public office what would you ask?
I ask because I am aiming toward creating a standardized test for anyone who aspires to public office.
I am also exploring how to make that test mandatory for anyone who applies, and to make the results public.
So have at it.
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You have presented yourself and may as a result swear a legally binding oath that you are willing to uphold and defend the Constitution of The United States of America.
You must now give answer to the people among whom you wish to effect and advance public policy by way of this examination.
The results of this test will be available to every citizen whom you are given to serve, and your fidelity to the oath of office will be under judicious scrutiny from the time you enter office to the time you leave it either voluntarily or by force of law.
It’s a great idea, but the only traits worth discovering cannot be isolated through the use of a written exam.
You want to find people with the trait of altruism and eliminate people with the trait of seeking self gain.
It’s quite difficult, because people with covert psychopathy learn early on to conceal their lack of emotion and their self-centeredness. Others often describe them as model citizens.
Ok
How about this
Please explain how you would reach a decision when called upon to tough votes on competing budgetary priorities?
Follow up question
You said that you believe there needs to be more “investment” in items a, b and c. How do you plan to pay for that spending?
A good question, but does not touch upon Constitutional fidelity.
The examination I propose to undertake could be bifucate. One section devoted to fundamentals, the other to particulars.
I don’t know about you, but my sense is, as a Christian, a good many who do not subscribe to my faith are fully capable of honoring and defending my right to practice it.
What about satanism as a faith? Whew. This is a simple matter if life is the object
That question, too, is legit. But it does not touch upon the fundamentals as iterated by the Preamble.
Let me ask you: Why do we have a Constitution?
Please do not take offense in my asking. I have read many of your thoughtful posts and rarely, if ever have disagreed with them.
My effort is aimed toward keeping people off the ballot who cannot answer that question and others in their own words.
What about bringing back A.D. & B.C. instead of C.E. and B.C.E?
You speak well, and it is not lost on me that no written exam will weed out liars.
Yet it has the salutary effect of informing a candidate that those whom he/she deigns to serve are watching, and this his own words are available for public perusal both before and while in office.
Public office should require a test more strict and philosophical than you endured to get a driver’s license, no?
Well, good heavens, P.O.E. ought at least be brought to bear.
Just to reiterate, what questions would you ask as a test of fealty toward our founding principles?
What I have seen in response thus far gives evidence I was not clear at the start.
Ok I see I am focusing to narrowly. I will have to think more on this
That thought occurred to me today while I was talking to some vets about the phrase “they also serve who stand and wait”. I always thought it to mean giving credit to those who didn’t necessarily see combat, but worked behind the lines.
I looked it up and it’s a quote from John Milton, the blind poet of the 1600s (Paradise Lost, etc.)
Nobody knew who I was talking about.
Then I started wondering just how much of Western Civ has been written out of our culture, academia, etc.
And not by accident.
Then it's position would be made public.
My Mom wrote that Milton out by hand for me in my youth. We both ought give it due consideration.
Does the Bill of Rights grant us those rights?
-PJ
Who defines ‘fidelity’? In a free country the voters can do the questions and definitions. It’s like the magic of the jury system. There’s people who trust ‘the people’ and people who think ‘the people’ are just there to manipulate.
I trust ‘the people’. Democrats don’t - which is why they do all the ‘rent a mob’ crap. The last thing in the world we want to do is imitate those awful people.
What’s your opinion of Kyle Rittenhouse?
“Fidelity” fairly well defines itself.
Who is inclined to practice it with respect to the Constitution is defined by their words and deeds.
“diversity’ defines itself too, right? /s
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