It is well understood that access to information is the cake of cakes, especially in government. It is also necessary for a government to keep secrets not just from its citizens but from segments of itself. It would do no good for Seal Team . to have its where abouts broadcast across the planet when they are conducting clandestine work.
Perfect example in current events is the beeper bombings that Israel pulled off against hamas. It doesn’t matter which side of the isle you are on, that operation was successful because it was kept secret. Namely kept secret from President 46. That’s a fact. Everything else is emotional window dressing.
Therefore, does it not make sense to have the best and brightest of our leaders reading classified information while preparing to pull on levers of power? As a nation we have certifications for almost everything. If you want to cook food, clean houses, fix A/C units, kill insects, drive a car, the list goes on and on into the infinite. Why not have a certification process for the most important jobs?
We will never get a certification apparatus that is immune to trading favors and for lack of a better word politicking. Therefore I propose a set of guidelines and independent contractors be brought in to conduct the interviews for all of current congress. The answers and test scores need to be ratified by the public, through a secure app, designed by Elon Musk. Seriously, we can tabulate millions of votes for a person who sings a song well on a TV show but it takes weeks to certify an election? This is 2024, lets get with the times.
The security questions will need to prevent all of the current criminals serving in our nations highest offices from passing. Giving the president 47 or otherwise the ability to fire them on the spot. Then the elites will get more criminals as candidates and they will also fail the certification process and the national healing repeats.
I would go so far as to have a skills demonstration as part of the process. Have the candidate fix a car, or dress themselves without the help of servants, or go to a grocery store and purchase a weeks worth of food.