Wm. McPhail nails it in his New Yorker cartoon ..

[meadowlander]

50. Well, people with some form of relevant experience.

Why is that a difficult concept to grasp?

Yes, we live in a democracy. That doesn't mean any boob off the street is prepared to command a nuclear arsenal, direct public policy that affects millions of lives, and manage a budget of $3.8 trillion and a government that employs 2.8 million people.

As someone with a PhD and fifteen years busting my ass in the civil service, I'm sick of people like Sarah Palin saying things like being a mom qualifies her to be president and not being called out on it. I'm not qualified to be president and neither is anyone else who hasn't spent at least twenty or thirty years of their life dedicated to the sole purpose of accumulating relevant experience.

When did we decide to settle for so little in our leaders?

The GOP's game plan has been painfully obvious for years. They keep throwing monkey wrenches into the government and then complaining that it doesn't work and that therefore we need "outsiders" to come in and "drain the swamp". And then when they are in power, they just loot and pillage until enough people catch on to put them out of power again.

What I don't get is how so many people can fall for it, over and over and over again. It's only been 8 years since the Global Financial Crisis and the American public has handed the whole shebang, lock, stock and barrel, back over to the same asshats responsible for it.