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While that's an interesting plan, I really think that would contribute more to the current problems than it would help. It would become nearly impossible to break the existing two-party system (which you'd think everyone could tell was long overdue for scrapping), whereas now it's at least possible (even if difficult) to at least be _heard_ as a candidate.
The biggest problem with politics is not inexperience. It's _too_much_ experience. Career politicians are more likely to be corrupt or swayed by extreme special interests, because they're looking for the next campaign donation and re-election and therefor have less incentive to do what's right instead of what's expedient. Term limits on _all_ offices would help curb that problem. Requiring a specific path of previous service, however, would cut out any citizen who didn't start training to be President as a teenager or whose service was equally great but on a different path. Essentially, this would mean that _only_ career politicians could reach high political office.
I'm afraid that the path set out here would also ensure that any person who was qualified was so old that they'd be unlikely to survive their entire term, and I think we all remember the problems it caused during Reagan's presidency when he began to lose his mental faculties due to age.
It's an important, no _crucial_, aspect of the theory of our government (if not the current practice) that practically every office is open to practically every citizen and the farther we stray from that, the worse the government will get.
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