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Surely it's up to the electors if they want to elect experts or not?
Or is your question actually "why don't electors seem to want to elect experts?"
I answered a question about why politics isn't restricted to experts, but if your question is about why people (rather than the system) don't demand them, I refer you to the quotation by my man Gove.
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Or is your question actually "why don't electors seem to want to elect experts?"
Sort of.
It was why "we" (we being the people on here dismissing the idea) don't want experts.
(It was literally this: "What is it about running the country which we feel doesn't demand any such training or knowledge? That you can pop out of your own work on sabbatical and still be a success at it?")
None of what Tommmmmmmm said was actually an answer to the question I asked though (barring the last sentence). Or the question I mean to ask - I didn't mean to suggest demanding qualifications in any formal manner. I can demand things of people without any legal constraints.
And elected experts are people to, so I'm not sure why that would risk not having a country ruled "by the people."
There seems to be an opinion here that we shouldn't worry about expertise in the case of governing (although we demand it in pretty much every other situation - from child-minding to food preparation). I'm curious as to why that is as it seems to fit nicely in with Gove's infamous position re: Brexit.
Re: politicians setting direction (@tommmmmmm) - this is the historical/philosophical crux of the issue, perhaps. Surely knowing what direction is the correct direction is a skill in itself. See the ship-of-state metaphor.