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.
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.
Milli Vanilli, Bigger than Elvis
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.
Putin khuliyo
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.
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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.
Putin khuliyo
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.
for any political office? I think current requirements are appropriate for the various offices.
1. Have at least 4 years of military service.
2. Be a wealthy property owner.
3. Have two parents who are natural born citizens.
Raise the age to 40.
Must have held an elected position. We're no longer in the 1700s.
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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.
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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.
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