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Why don't countries add harder requirements for becoming a President(Like having a PhD/master degree, having a certain amount of experience in politics,...etc)? (piefed.world)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1499200/why-don-t-countries-add-harder-requirements-for-becoming-a-president-like-having-a-decor

It seems to me the obvious next step.

I mean if other jobs requirements like IT and even accounting had started asking for more certifications and experience to work, then why the heck shouldn't presidents get asked to be more qualified for their jobs?

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The idea of the president is to be naturally born. Do you see Americans become presidents/prime ministers of other countries? No, because the people of other countries, want someone who represent them. Not someone who is an outsider, who might not care about the values that the country cares about.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    So if an American philosopher-king was born in Mexico, became a US citizen at 10, and spent the next 50 years in the US should nonetheless not be allowed to be a US President because she wasn't born in the US?

    (Let's say she was born in 1968.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    You're not making sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Let's say a girl was born in Mexico in 1968. Her parents (who are also Mexican) moved to the US soon after and by 1978 become US citizens, which made her a US citizen.

    She gets great grades while in school and integrates fully into American society. Let's say she goes to university and gets a Ph.d, and later serves 2 terms in the US House of Representatives. Perhaps she could try to be US President. She's not well known but that was true with the last 3 Democratic US Presidents (Carter in 1974, Clinton in 1990, and Obama in 2006 were relative nobodies).

    Ah, but she's not a native-born citizen and thus can't be a US President.

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