Left out of the discussion: How do the aliens feel about Jesus? That would tip the scales for this market.
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I just wish that they were unelectable. Like the man said, “How’s that working for you?”
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Florida Woman?
There’s nothing wrong with child-like naïveté in a child. But an actively delusional adult is somebody in need of help.
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The reality is that most of the world believes in a deity of one form or another, and a great many of them talk to that nonexistent entity or entities. You can call it indoctrination, you can call it brainwashing, you can call it mass hallucination, or you can call it faith. It’s not more true than alien abductions, but comparing the two and saying they all need to shed belief in their deity to be fit for public office is just completely unhelpful and a irreligious test is no better than a religious test for office.
Now perhaps you didn’t follow this tangent all the way to what I first replied to, but @anon62122146 compared talking to God to believing in alien abduction and that’s not a useful comparison in this context of a test for office. I do in fact agree with @anon62122146 that basing public policy on any non-evidence basis is wrong, but talking to God or any other diety is not and should not be a disqualification for office because the law is not an institution suited to decreeing what belief systems are correct, it would inevitably and quickly be perverted into a way to suppress disbelief and unpopular belief.
Somehow we got off on this pointless tangent of general rationality tests for public office and maybe I inadvertently helped derail us. But if it’s going to continue then it should be in it’s own thread and I won’t be participating because it’s a reckless and insane idea that I flatly do not support.
ETA: I want to be clear that my trenchant irritation isn’t directly specifically at you, but mostly at myself for embroiling myself in the same futile conversation about public office rationality tests that’s been rehashed ad nauseam since the dawn of the internet and long long before it. Sorry if I came off as short with you; I wasn’t trying to be.
And also, obviously I want people like this woman kept out of elected office. But I want it done with votes against her and by fighting GOP gerrymandering, not by trying to changing the qualifications for elected office.
ETA: I confused @anon62122146’s comment with that of @davide405. Apologies to both.
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TOO LATE! Several have already been elected.
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But it says right there - “Same alien helped Clinton win top job in 1992”. Clearly this alien is not bound by strict party politics. Also he should put on a shirt to meet with the president. Maybe a hat, too.
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… in Florida
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A friend of mind has parents with alien abduction experiences. My friend had experienced the same thing but identified it as sleep paralysis. They said they definitely understood why people thought of it as being contacted by aliens. They described an inability to move, a sort of confused lack of awareness about where she was (sort of halfway between dreaming and awake) and a strong feeling they were being watched.
But beyond repressed abuse (thanks @davide405) and sleep paralysis, childhood memories are so unreliable that it could have been a movie she watched, a book she read or a dream she had. It could be that a friend told her that it happened to them and that she remembers it as something that happened to her.
I would be inclined against voting for someone who was sufficiently unaware of how memory/perception works to think a real alien encounter was more likely than a false memory/perception. But my preference for someone who thinks critically about their own experiences is really sort of like me saying, “I’d elect someone like me!” I’m not sure this is of significant interest to the people who voted for her, who are presumably interested in electing people like themselves. Honestly, if someone was the sort of person I would vote for and had a similar belief, I’m not sure it would stop me from voting for them.
Now if they think they got abducted by aliens in the last few weeks, that would probably stop me.
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I think it’s prudent of her to start here on the planetary level before running for the Galactic Imperial Senate, where her advocacy of human rights will be much more important.
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Yeah, but I’ve never heard of a candidate who claimed Jesus personally took them for a ride in his sweet Trans-Am.
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Before we get all full of ourselves with derision, let’s recall that Hillary Clinton is a big believer in UFO’s and disclosure of classified documents.
Speaking of Fair Game, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one of Scientology’s big friends in DC, so it looks like Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera will have their vote.
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I’m not sure I’d characterize “fine with declassifying any information on the topic that doesn’t harm national security” with being “a big believer in UFOs.” Hillary merely said she’s open to the possibility.
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“Aliens! We must build a wall!”
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Damn you and your absolutely reasonable words!
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They’re not sending their best people.
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Yeah of all the reboots, remakes, etc. Hollywood is doing, it’s telling nobody’s touched this.
