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Those who understand the murky workings of a trouble mind will testify, on their professional oath, that a would-be arsonist or serial killer conducts himself just like any other local or neighbour, could be a loving spouse and parent, regular guy among his colleagues, a conscientious church-goer or alms-giver, predictable a clockwork in appointments, even sparkling with compliments and jokes. Such an individual, catapulted to positions of responsibility, may actually prove second to none in the social schemes and projects. A madman, such experienced psychiatrists will assure you, develops a cunning of great subtlety that success in disguising the dark, trouble interior, the seat of a festering dementia until, of course, it is too late.
Most nations recognize the sad fragility of the human mind, and understand that even the mind of political geniuses caan break under strain, that the latent seeds of insanity in all of may actually come to bloom under the strain of existence, how much more when burdened with the enormity of power.
We are no psychiatrists. So what do we possess that enables us to diagnose and counter the signs of incipient or advanced derangement? Well, there are numerous signs. When for instance, an individual substitutes himself for the totality, this is evidence of delusion, backed by the most precise of sciences, mathematics one. Fortunately, we can precisely identify and isolate the entity of one, and just as easily identify the rest. When that errant substitutes his will for the constitution, we are already within the zone of questionable balance of mind and, as it happens the constitution has anticipated and offers the course of action that a people might pursue when confronted with such a highly advance stage of solipsism. taken with other acts that build up a discernible pattern of irrationality and delusion, a case may be made of assembling the mandatory panels of experts to examine if the incumbent has indeed attained that stage of infirmity of body and mind where continuance in office poses grave dangers to the well-being of the totality.

If experience is anything to go by, this action will prove a political minefield

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