Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:18 PM

cilla4progress (20,070 posts)

Nope. No real requirements to run for public office in America.

Does that seem OK to you?

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Nope. No real requirements to run for public office in America. (Original post)	cilla4progress	Jan 2021	OP
No education, no experience, no character required.	Irish_Dem	Jan 2021	#1
It's interesting, really. Anyone can run for office, pretty much.	MineralMan	Jan 2021	#2
I hope you are right, MM!	cilla4progress	Jan 2021	#3
Who should set the requirements? Obviously prohibitions on gunz are reasonable, but what about	Hoyt	Jan 2021	#4
Qualifications set up in the 18th century	LeftInTX	Jan 2021	#7
At that time the only people who would or even could afford to run for office	The Velveteen Ocelot	Jan 2021	#9
In today's GOP that seems to be a feature and not a bug.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Jan 2021	#5
"Does that seem OK to you?"	WhiskeyGrinder	Jan 2021	#6
Like a background check (no violent felonies) and	cilla4progress	Jan 2021	#8

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:20 PM

Irish_Dem (26,507 posts)

1. No education, no experience, no character required.

Just run your mouth with crazy crap.

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:22 PM

MineralMan (144,464 posts)

2. It's interesting, really. Anyone can run for office, pretty much.

That's why campaigns exist. They are supposed to provide time for people to learn more about the candidates. Usually, that works out OK, but not always.

However, it is always possible for an unworthy candidate to win an election, for whatever reason. It happens. Fortunately, they soon stand out as being unworthy of their office and are outnumbered by others who are competent, whether we agree with their political positions or not.

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:26 PM

cilla4progress (20,070 posts)

3. I hope you are right, MM!

I hope the evil will be excised, and good prevail in the end!

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:30 PM

Hoyt (54,770 posts)

4. Who should set the requirements? Obviously prohibitions on gunz are reasonable, but what about

education, beliefs, etc.

Voters should have more sense than to vote for trump, Taylor, Cruz, and the like, but I'm for limited requirements to run.

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:33 PM

LeftInTX (19,576 posts)

7. Qualifications set up in the 18th century

Maybe there a few laws that have been added to the books. But who makes those laws?

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Response to LeftInTX (Reply #7)

Sat Jan 30, 2021, 02:19 PM

The Velveteen Ocelot (101,460 posts)

9. At that time the only people who would or even could afford to run for office

were well-educated, upper-class white men (that is, pretty much the only people who could even vote) so they probably didn't think it was necessary to impose specific eligibility requirements on candidates.

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:31 PM

The Velveteen Ocelot (101,460 posts)

5. In today's GOP that seems to be a feature and not a bug.

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:33 PM

WhiskeyGrinder (17,450 posts)

6. "Does that seem OK to you?"

Yes.

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 01:38 PM

cilla4progress (20,070 posts)

8. Like a background check (no violent felonies) and

a HS degree too much to ask?

Like the nice lady says.

Each party should rise to the occasion. If they had, maybe we wouldn't have ended up with the disgraced ex- president and fascism at our doorstep.

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