Just imagine if America selected its representatives like the spartans, the old men who performed well in combat for the most part, so as you might imagine it was a pretty mixed bag, depending a lot on luck and circumstances for selection. Today you would have Forrest Gump instead of someone like Louie Gohmert from Texas, about as smart as Forrest, but Forrest had a good heart, Louie is an asshole! America would have been a better place with a better class of mormon running the show. Forrest was one of McNamara's morons and he was the best and brightest in the government, or so they said...