Hoping For Bernie - Or Anybody

THE UNAVOIDABLE TRUTH IS THAT, by nature, anybody enough well qualified to be a good President of the United States is smart enough to not want the job. We might prefer a professor from M.I.T. with a double doctorate in history and political swcience, and a solid bibliography of intellectually sound publications; instead we get career politicians, pretty boys, slick boys, you know the type. We get people who are so zealously covetous of the job that they seem to think of themselves as crusaders to save the Earth, as if the world simply cannot get along if they aren't in power. We need candidates who are willing to take it, or leave it, candidates who merely offer their services, but don't bend over backwards trying to get elected. Nobody wants to be of service that much. People do, however, want power, fame and wealth that much. Anyone seeking the American Presidency with such all out abandon is not seeking to serve, but rather, to rule. All of the people currently seeking the job are smart, but poorly educated, bad tempered, or both. Take Ted Cruz. Well educated, certainly. But how can a well educated person in the highly advanced year of 2016 still believe, or claim to believe, that the Bible is the literal truth, and that the jury is still out on climate change? Can we say "squandering one's education"? Cruz seems to think that he is carrying the sacred torch of the Christian religion back to where it rightfully belongs in America; the top positions of power. Nothing could be further from the truth. You would think that a man of Ted Cruz's education would accept the fact that the United States is a secularly governed nation, always has been, and, unless we go way astray, always will be. The only candidate who actually discusses the real issues is Bernie Sanders, which is why he has a chance to get elected, but probably won't. But we can hope.