What Are You Waiting For?

The election season has been on for a while this year dotted with special elections coupled with the upcoming regular cycle of national elections in November. Republicans worked hard to make sure the voice of their constituents is heard and as elected politicians that’s a part of their job. They stayed campaigning hard and strong. Anyone with even the slightest inkling of how politicians get and keep a career knows without attention to elections, they have nothing.

After all it’s what we expect as taxpaying and voting citizens. Americans like fighters and they like winners. They like people who fight and keep fighting. They want people who will stand up for the voices of the majority of us and work hard to stay on their feet.

The job of politicians is to keep standing up representing the voice of those without one on a national level. They need to do so while in office and come election time it is their job to run again to be elected and continuing to do so. The obligation to run again or campaign vigorously for others who do comes with the bundle. That is of course unless it would be an inappropriate time for them to show up.

Politicians are not only individuals they are a part of a team. That is true from big tent parties on down to small third parties. It can’t be left up to the individual running for election to put in all the work alone. The most popular figures in the party need to come into the picture and lend their support. This needs to be visible and involve numerous personalities on multiple occasions on a consistent basis until the fight is won.

This should not be left on the shoulders of one person alone especially on a national level. That’s just asking for the person appointed to be the sole bread winner of the party to be broken due to the weight from responsibilities of their respective office and carrying the entire party simultaneously. When times are good the rest of the party can ride safely on the wave of the celebrity politician’s popularity.

When times are tough if the rest of the party stays home worried about what would happen they will all suffer. If they have not built the base for themselves to campaign on they will be in trouble. If there is no one else to campaign on their behalf there will be problems.

When that happens, those who depended on politicians to come out and valiantly fight for the issues that affect them are left to wonder just who they’ve fallen in with. This year Democrats have been forcing many of their supporters to do just that. During the special elections this year with their numbers steadily sliding downhill many were expecting them to come out and campaign hard to remind people who they fight for. It was expected they would work hard to mirror the work ethic of the people they claim to represent.

It was expected the label “limousine liberals” would be shirked and people representing those of middle to lower income Americans would come to bear. They would come out and say “we are still here fighting as hard as ever for you.” It was expected they would not let down their supporters who wanted so much.

Yet, let down those who put them in office and counted on them to come out and show a winner they did. Democrats hung out in Washington until the last week or so and then woke up in their luxurious taxpayer funded sheets and said “okay, okay we’ll do something! Sheesh.”

Sure they worked hard on the hill, but in the streets they were absent as though they had turned their noses up at everyday America. It was as if they had become too comfy and felt too good for the rest of us to campaign no matter what our party. Were they suggesting we eat cake?

So far it has been much the same. Hanging out on the taxpayer dime and expecting the president to do all their work for them. Are they really limousine liberals or the embodiment of working class Americans in Washington? We’ll soon find out.

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