A certain fraction of humanity is always going to be nuts. Just plain bonkers. These are people who deserve food and shelter and medicine, but who believe crazy, crazy things and who should not be allowed sharp implements or loaded guns.
Or TV shows. Yet somehow, the craziest of the crazy are suddenly the people we care about on the news. Through acts of demagoguery and terror, they are demanding that we capitulate to their ridiculous demands.
We should not be giving crazy people an idiot veto. I don't want to see the president, or for that matter anyone of any responsibility outside the mental health industry, giving an opinion about what a crazy person might or might not do. "Mr. President, a man in Nevada is threatening to kill his puppy unless we immediately bomb North Korea." So? He's crazy. Who cares what one stupid idiot does?
Somehow I imagine this will end up like in Blazing Saddles, where the new sheriff can only calm the mob by holding himself hostage. If President Obama would threaten to kill himself, maybe everyone else would shut the hell up. Well, except Fox News who would complain that he's weak on crime for not arresting himself for attempted suicide.
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