Subject: Re: Speaker of the House - Epstein Vote
If the Speaker is going to have that kind of power (possibly more than POTUS?), then the American people as a whole should be voting on that position.

They are. We vote for our Representatives. The Representatives choose the speaker.

I mean, that's how a lot of countries pick the head of government. In most parliamentary systems, there's no direct election of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is chosen by majority vote in the legislature. Direct election of the head of government is not the only way to run a democracy, and there's a lot of arguments in favor of not doing it that way.