No, the president and his deputy aren’t equals

We keep lamenting that leaders turn out rogue almost immediately they are declared winners in elections. Yet despite the agonies, such leaders make us go through, we willingly repeat the same mistake of re-electing them every five years.

To this dilemma, British philosopher Bertrand Russel had an answer: “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”