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Slippery slope. From there we might start requiring basic knowledge of politics and policies before people can vote! ;]

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/slippery-slope

The whole point of a republic is to elect informed representatives that can make decisions on important topics so that all X million people in the electorate don't have to. It's entirely reasonable to expect the people in charge to know what they're talking about.

whoosh.

Not even if people vote for them?

Perhaps those in power simply need better (commercially disinterested, emotionally neutral) advisers for topics about which said politicians know nothing.