Makes me wonder why we, for instance, require absolutely healthy sane fit people to send to the the Olympics, a space station or the moon, but leading an entire country requires only extraordinary charisma and absolutely nothing else.
> Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
The thing is, in order to lead, you need people to follow. Otherwise you're not a leader, you're just some loudmouth.
So it makes some sense that leading a country means being the kind of person that people are willing to follow. It's the "only" and "absolutely nothing else" parts that are the problem.
Looks like you can be both. And a puppet at the same time.
So we need some mandatory check(up)s on extraordinary charismatic leading people who have the power to wreak havoc when they are making stupid desicions.
We (as a species) are not really getting better at that, aren't we?