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>We would only elect depressed people to positions of power, favoring their superior acumen. Like Abraham Lincoln for example? He was famously depressed, and

• spangry 10y ago
  Winston Churchill is another good example of a depressed (or possibly bipolar) leader (Churchill's "black dog"). Interesting that they are both war-time leaders. On Lincoln, the recorded remarks of a fellow Illinois legislator are particularly interesting (from the article): "He Sought company, and indulged in fun and hilarity without restraint, or Stint as to time[.] Still when by himself, he told me that he was so overcome with mental depression, that he never dare carry a knife in his pocket."