Two outrageous, arrogant and presumptious assumptions that

certain people make:

1. That they are good enough to be chosen for the Rapture;

2. That they are capable enough and competent enough to be President.

#2 a small elite group of idiots, #1 a larger group of the same.

In my view, the elitism in many, if not most, of these people stems from an underlying narcissism, which is a psychological defect.

those who can count, and those who can't.

Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

1. Nobody has to be "good" enough. It is by FAITH a person is saved. You don't have to be perfect or even good, you simply have to choose to accept and follow the Lord Jesus Christ, and try to become better.

2. This is supposed to be the Government "of the people and by the people." Once you start accepting the idea that only "some" people are good enough and smart enough and capable enough to serve in public office, then you have accepted a certain type of royalty. You may think it is a meritocracy, but that is not necessarily so. Who, after all, is generally held to be more capable and competent - the bank president or the janitor. Yet, this janitor, myself, has a Master's degree in economics and once taught the son of a bank president who was quite likely to become a bank president himself. (To be fair, he did get an A, so he wasn't a total doofus, but it wasn't his grades or his education that were going to get him a good job and the experience that go with it - it was his genes.)

What you suggest, sound to me like a government "of the elite and by the elite" which is almost inevitably "for the elite". We need more ordinary people in public office, even very high public office. President Truman, a mere shopkeeper, was certainly better than George W. Bush with his MBA from Yale. Probably 70% of Americans would have been a better President that George W. Bush.