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Serious question (Original Post) malaise 19 hrs ago OP
You know the answer chicoescuela 19 hrs ago #1
Because they're all crazy. Ocelot II 18 hrs ago #2
He belongs in a 2 dimensional cage where BootinUp 18 hrs ago #3
For the same reason he is not sitting in a solitary confinement prison cell SheltieLover 18 hrs ago #4
Like this BootinUp 18 hrs ago #5
It's a question for the last 500 years bucolic_frolic 18 hrs ago #6
The reason Raygun Reagan closed the Sanitariums: he knew that his entire party was insane. Clouds Passing 18 hrs ago #7
Because our Constitution has been suspended. Ferrets are Cool 18 hrs ago #8
The residents have all the keys ornotna 17 hrs ago #9
Congress has been asleep for fifteen months. OLDMDDEM 17 hrs ago #10
We don't lock people up in insane asylums anymore MichMan 16 hrs ago #11

Ocelot II

(130,621 posts)
2. Because they're all crazy.
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 10:03 AM
18 hrs ago

But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
"You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.

-Lewis Carroll

bucolic_frolic

(55,220 posts)
6. It's a question for the last 500 years
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 10:17 AM
18 hrs ago

Society - civilizations - have not found a way to rid themselves of evil leaders who rise to the peak of the pyramid. We've left the idea it was a royalty problem in the 1800s. Yet it still happens. Elites surrounding the leader use the resulting chaos to serve their own interests and ideas? I guess that's my guess.

Clouds Passing

(7,964 posts)
7. The reason Raygun Reagan closed the Sanitariums: he knew that his entire party was insane.
Sun Apr 5, 2026, 10:22 AM
18 hrs ago

They all know they are crazy, they revel in it.

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