Why are presidents elected?

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And, exactly, military officials are promoted based on experience and proven track records.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... you came home with that one.

It's not about experience, it's about who gives the best head. You've never spent much time around the military have you? It's all about politics, it's much more "in-house" than civil leadership, though.

On a more serious note: there are reasons that military leaders aren't elected-- far beyond "qualifications"-- the military is the world's oldest fraternity, no matter what country one is referring to. We're not going to take orders from someone who isn't "one of us."

Civil leadership is elective because, in theory, it gives us the freedom to choose officials and representatives that best share our ideology in how things should be run. As far as someone needing a lot of experience to do one position or another, it's not necessarily true, because every secretariat, senator, elected leader, board chairman or what-have-you has a staff of people that actually do the job. These people are the real, flesh and blood, "government." You should look into how many civil service people your local municipality employs, then think of that on a state and federal scale.

A lot of them have been doing the job for a long time, they may, in many cases become advisors to the President, Governor, Mayor, Senator, et cetera. That's why you don't need a leader with as many qualifications or broad experience as you would from someone who is a military chief of staff.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Did the Germans get tired of his Horst-shit?

There's nowhere I can't reach.