Here is a theoretical constitutional law question. The US Constitution allows for write-in candidates and restricts the President to two consecutive terms. What would happen if, in 2016 enough people wrote in the name of Barack Obama for the Presidency for him to win both the Electoral College and the popular vote?

Every promise evokes strong emotions and expectations, but the nature of those emotions and expectations depend on the knowledge and perspective of the one receiving the promises.

The Game is Rigged

The history we are creating is a product of the choices we have made along our journey, but humans have a tendency to overestimate the influence that the choices that they make have on their history. This is driven by a desire to separate themselves from the non-human species, whose behavior we claim is hardwired in their DNA. But how valid is that perspective? The truth is that we do not have sole control over our choices, either as individuals or as groups. Freedom of choice is only an illusion. We all do what we are driven to do by forces over which we have no control.

We seem unwilling to learn the only lesson that decades of science has taught us -- that nature always does what it wants to do and cannot be made to do what it does not want to do.