09-26-2020, 12:25 AM
One of the rules of Olympic competitions is that if one cheats and gets an apparent win, then one loses. So it is with performance-enhancing substances banned by the IOC. Finishing first at a race or lasting longest in a weight-lifting contest leads to a loss of any medal and the potential for banning from competition for a very long time. Basically, if you cheat you lose.
A precedent for denying the Presidency to a cheater does not exist in American history. It exists in a country whose original founders established a political structure for whom the model was the United States of America. The Presidential election of 1986 in the Philippines devolved upon the military deciding that electoral misconduct that the incumbent President had directed effectively disqualified then-President Ferdinand Marcos in favor of Corazon Aquino.
A precedent for denying the Presidency to a cheater does not exist in American history. It exists in a country whose original founders established a political structure for whom the model was the United States of America. The Presidential election of 1986 in the Philippines devolved upon the military deciding that electoral misconduct that the incumbent President had directed effectively disqualified then-President Ferdinand Marcos in favor of Corazon Aquino.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.