Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Why Everyone Hates the Supreme Court's Decision on Insurrection \u0026 the 14th Amendment" video.
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The SCOTUS decision, including the minority opinion, is deeply disturbing.
It holds the rights of a candidate to be eligible to be more important than the rights of the People to not have a President who is an insurrectionist.
Being a candidate for the highest office in the USA is a privilege, not a right. There should be more protections against bad candidates, not less.
IMHO, the Biblical standard for high office should apply as well for the Presidency: "to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full a respect."
Trump fails on all of these conditions, except perhaps "hospitable" by virtue of owning hotels and resorts. But if the way the Secret Service people were treated by some of his children is an indication (they weren't allowed to pee at the property they were protecting), they are only hospitable in exchange for a lot of money.
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