What qualifications should be ..

[Doctor Amadeus]

What qualifications should be to run for political office?

1. To be a Natural Born Citizen
2. To be at least 35
3. To hold no private position that conflicts with the office.

[Adam Jensen]

4. A basic understandings of civics and American history
5. Basic empathy
6. The ability to make it at least a week without telling a baldfaced lie.

[Doctor Amadeus]

5 and 6 would be really hard to quantify.

Anyway:

7. have humor and be able to laugh
8. decent understanding of technology

You really posted something about how being able to tell the truth and having empathy being hard to quantify, yet you suggest having a sense of fucking humor. really!?

No we actually could use a hell of a lot less people with a sense of humor over having objective empathy and knowing how to tell the truth.

[Felya]

5 and 6 would be really hard to quantify.

Anyway:

7. have humor and be able to laugh
8. decent understanding of technology

Empathy is hard to quantify, but when a politician acts like a comedian is easy? FYI... comedy is far more subjective than empathy.

[Adam Jensen]

Adam Jensen was the first one to be ambiguous. I'm not guilty, Mr. David Serif.

I didn't realize quantization was required in this discussion.

I wasn't approaching the question from a legal standpoint. Obviously things like empathy or truthfulness can't be fully measured or codified into law. But they should be a part of one's judgement when picking which candidate to support.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Adam Jensen was the first one to be ambiguous. I'm not guilty, Mr. David Serif.

PS: gonna leave the topic so it develops in full seriousness from now on. Apologies for the small interjection.

Thank you Vlad, might I add that Vampires should for sure not be allowed to run for office.

[P for Pancetta]

9. A successful career in competitive martial arts, WWE qualifies
10. Should be able to tame wild animals and make them do it's bidding.
11. speak and write at least seven different languages and three dead languages.

[Stormspellz]

for any political office? I think current requirements are appropriate for the various offices.

[Deletedaccount1]

1. Have at least 4 years of military service.
2. Be a wealthy property owner.
3. Have two parents who are natural born citizens.

[JohnBrown1917]

Be a citizen.


Thats it, nothing else should be needed.

1. Have at least 4 years of military service.
2. Be a wealthy property owner.
3. Have two parents who are natural born citizens.

Only the rich and those who served the US imperiaal goals can run lol.
What a nice democracy.

[NED funded]

I would add be below 65 at least.

[Deletedaccount1]

Only the rich and those who served the US imperiaal goals can run lol.
What a nice democracy.

I don't want a democracy, I want a constitutional polity that borrows from an aristocracy and a democracy.

[JohnBrown1917]

I don't want a democracy, I want a constitutional polity that borrows from an aristocracy and a democracy.

So you want the democratic version of feudalism with a bonus of imperialism, sounds nice. And nobody who opposes it can run, its water tight at least.

[Deletedaccount1]

So you want the democratic version of feudalism with a bonus of imperialism, sounds nice. And nobody who opposes it can run, its water tight at least.

No I want this:

I want a constitutional polity that borrows from an aristocracy and a democracy.

[PACOX]

Raise the age to 40.

Must have held an elected position. We're no longer in the 1700s.

[Grapemask]

2. Be a wealthy property owner.

This is a pretty terrible condition, given that it guarantees that a leader has little vested interested in the majority of their constituents or their lives. This is kind of precisely why the founders went with our entire system of government that allows the common man to become a leader, after seeing how the aristocracy and rule of the elite turned out back home. Pretty much all of Europe collectively came to the same conclusion and diminished the power of / threw out / killed their leaders, too.

For my own idea of qualifications, I really don't care about natural born citizenship. There's nothing that inherently says the guy who was shit out in a dumpster behind an Alabama Wal-Mart is more loving of our country than someone originally from X foreign country that worked hard to get here and make something of himself. US citizenship, maybe residency for some amount of time, that's about all that I can think of that matters. It should follow the same principles capitalists love: instead of regulating who can play the game, open it up and let the free market of democracy decide who gets to lead.

[Somewhatconcerned]

This is a pretty terrible condition, given that it guarantees that a leader has little vested interested in the majority of their constituents or their lives. This is kind of precisely why the founders went with our entire system of government that allows the common man to become a leader, after seeing how the aristocracy and rule of the elite turned out back home. Pretty much all of Europe collectively came to the same conclusion and diminished the power of / threw out / killed their leaders, too.

For my own idea of qualifications, I really don't care about natural born citizenship. There's nothing that inherently says the guy who was shit out in a dumpster behind an Alabama Wal-Mart is more loving of our country than someone originally from X foreign country that worked hard to get here and make something of himself. US citizenship, maybe residency for some amount of time, that's about all that I can think of that matters. It should follow the same principles capitalists love: instead of regulating who can play the game, open it up and let the free market of democracy decide who gets to lead.

Yup, will be pretty funny watching these FREEDOM LOVING, CONSTITUTIONALISTS show their true colors in this thread. So utterly predictable. Like the wealthy land owner comment...LOL.

[Masark]

Must have held an elected position. We're no longer in the 1700s.

So you need to have held political office before you're allowed to be a candidate for a political office?

[PACOX]

So you need to have held political office before you're allowed to be a candidate for a political office?

I assumed we were talking about POTUS.

[Captain N]

The ability to bring up politicians on the other side of the political spectrum or leaders of other nation's without resorting to creating an insulting nickname.