"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken

Wake me when a majority of actual US voters would pick someone based on their educational qualifications for the job.

We do that all the time.

Not in any election that I've seen in the last 35 years.

I don’t think that’s true, frankly. I guess maybe if you don’t vote in local elections and also don’t pay attention to congressional elections.

I vote in both.

My state rep lives (more or less) across the street from me. He wins because he gets things done and is generally a nice and honest person. His educational background as a lawyer doesn't seem to enter into the reasons why any of us vote for him.

My congressional rep and our two senators - I couldn't even begin to tell you their educational backgrounds. I can tell you about their policy positions (and in one case, their abject failure to actually do anything related to them), and a little bit about their personal history.

I’d have to know your district to give you more details but I promise you there’s hundreds of positions across America in elections that get filled by people with a matching background college education. At the very least I can point to judges who have legal backgrounds.

I live in alabama. One of our state's senators only previous job was as a football coach. It's bleak out here.

Okay but that’s not the only election going on in the United States, you know that right?

That’s actually just categorically wrong and frankly easy to find out. First of all the one that jumps to mind is AOC, but also just in general apparently econ is the third most popular study for congress members, behind politics and law.

AOC is not in charge of government spending. Congress members have not meaningfully capped government spending for decades now.

So it’s not “categorically wrong” and it’s petty good evidence that those degrees are useless for actually controlling government spending.

…do you actually think there are no economists working on the US government's federal budget? Is that a serious belief of yours?