To be honest @jayna, I think a great many of the people who would be truly qualified to be in public office will — pardon my bluntness — stay far far away from that munted shitshow.

I always end up thinking of that old Tears for Fears song from back in the 80's: "Everybody wants to rule the world." It all feels like a big misguided contest in accumulating personal power and influence. People are more attached to "Being the Leader" because it makes them LOOK good, than they are to actually leading.

I look at someone like the recent Presidential candidate Andrew Yang... his policies aside, what I admired about him was his ability to sit down and have a reasonable and intelligent discussion with someone like Ben Shapiro one day and Cenk Uygur the next day and nobody needed to get mean and sling arrows.