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One of the keys is the ability to assess talent and appoint. Being president is about building a team to do a very multifaceted job, and a president will only be as successful as the individuals they delegate tasks to. In order to do this education and ethics must be core values held in extremely high regard.
Sady, with the way the world is I don't think we'll ever see a truly exceptional president (in the US or most world countries for that matter) in our lifetime. A truly good president would be thrown out or thwarted pretty quickly due to a stupid public. Too much of the world has poor psychologies and the broad sociological condition is sick. As sad as it is the opinions of the public matter - regardless of if they are right or working - and there has to be a certain level of appealing that in order to keep a coalition of politicans working, and that appealing at times can require doing very illogical or damaging things. They could do everything right, but if the public doesn't like it for entirely irrational reasons it will be unstable and not last.
As such a truly "good" president insofar as working a functional stable government rather necessitates that they be mediocre and generally play to the lowest common denominator, which typically will result in less the ideal outcomes for the general public.
Countries are too big. We did not evolve to co-exist on such a grand scale and multi-generational long campaign to adapt ourselves and our governments to what our psychologies require will be required to have truly good leaders.
Sady, with the way the world is I don't think we'll ever see a truly exceptional president (in the US or most world countries for that matter) in our lifetime. A truly good president would be thrown out or thwarted pretty quickly due to a stupid public. Too much of the world has poor psychologies and the broad sociological condition is sick. As sad as it is the opinions of the public matter - regardless of if they are right or working - and there has to be a certain level of appealing that in order to keep a coalition of politicans working, and that appealing at times can require doing very illogical or damaging things. They could do everything right, but if the public doesn't like it for entirely irrational reasons it will be unstable and not last.
As such a truly "good" president insofar as working a functional stable government rather necessitates that they be mediocre and generally play to the lowest common denominator, which typically will result in less the ideal outcomes for the general public.
Countries are too big. We did not evolve to co-exist on such a grand scale and multi-generational long campaign to adapt ourselves and our governments to what our psychologies require will be required to have truly good leaders.