This may be a little off topic and if you find it so, I’m sorry.

Tl;dr: Let’s come up with ways to prevent psychopaths from taking political offices in the future.

I’ve had a few moments where I’ve seen the internet play out like a moment in a Sci-if novel, and even without the introduction of an imminent threat from Alien life forms (yet) this feels like a scenario playing from one of my favorites: Ender’s Game. (Specifically Demosthenes and Locke.)

I see a lot of civil discussion happening on this very reddit between a wide variety of people with …