2A is not a qualification. 2A is already part of the republican agenda. We don't need uneducated and inexperienced elected officials. The standard for these folks needs to be high but we seem to have none for these people. We get whatever bar we set. We should expect our elected officials to be moral upstanding people that have some education, understand the law and have vast life experiences.
Calm down now. Never attacked you personally. I am very much a constitutionalist and I believe in following all of it, not dismissing it when my guy didn't win. I never said 2A is not a significant voting point. Never said 2A was not a requirement. I said it is not a qualification for a candidate. It is a position. You obviously believe that having low standards in the 21st century (we don't live and operate in the 18th century) for elected leaders is acceptable. I am not. want my leaders to have the highest set standards and be moral, trustworthy, have an education and life experiences. I will not compromise on that.
I don't find most of them are qualified under my standards - not moral, not smart, not trustworthy, loyal to themselves and party and not to Americans. My standards for leadership far exceed who we elect to these positions.
In politics, the best qualified candidates very rarely even apply for the job.
A man need not be old nor have attended college to have vast life experience and be highly educated.
True but people in their prime to be leaders of a nation in the 21st century are not high school educated and never been anywhere or done anything outside of their locale. Think Lincoln. Educated and traveled for the early 19th century US. And yea, we must assign morality and trustworthiness to those seeking national office. You see who we get when you don’t. Low standards equals low quality. And the US leadership is replete with low quality and it is because of our low standards. Hence, the the reason you see big re-election rates. They show us who they are and yet we re-elect them. Real smart and wise. Amazes me all the excuses people come up with for leaders. Especially ones leading a nation. Scary. This nation doesn’t have a lot going for it when all we can do is elect the same crooks over and over. Primaries are important. Americans need to stop listening to what the parties say is the best candidate. Guarantee they are not.
Where does he have that? YouTube?
I'm sorry, but your definition of "Education" is probably not the best thing for a candidate to possess these days in my opinion.
I think the key here is 21st century. Founding fathers were self made men that read and learned the law. This is not the case these days. We have people with BAs and BSs that barely know how to write correctly for professional settings. A basic education nowadays for professionals is pretty much some sort of masters degree. A degree does not make a person smart if trustworthy. I look at it as a basic requirement for knowledge. Exceptions to the rule always exist to include those with Ivy League degrees dumb as a box of rocks. If you have no degree and lived in your little bubble and are early 30s or younger - I’ll take a hard pass. These people don’t have the education or experiences for leadership positions much less national level. We expect more of almost every profession for someone to be at the top of their field. Take a general or admiral for example. Anyone will say many things they expect them to have. Ask anyone about politicians and suddenly these people need nothing in their resume that demonstrates their ability to lead.
This may be where we disagree fundamently:
We are not far apart but my prerequisite is leadership. I totally agree they were meant to be servants and represent. If you don't what it takes to lead then you have no business being in a leadership position. I think national leaders need a lot of knowledge and diversity of experiences. A real leader knows they are there to serve their people. Our politicians don't know that there are servants or there to lead us the American people.
@Kershaw I'm curious what makes his affiliates less than savory?
Those people who tend to want to rule others are, Ipso Facto, those least suited to do it...
