I was having a conversation about the current election season with someone and the comment was made about the newcomers to the process. The comment was about a particular candidate “wanting to start at the top” instead of working their way up. Why in the world would I want to support a candidate who has spent 20 years being molded into the kind of political hacks that got us into this mess? Why would I want someone who has been well trained to “go along, to get along?” I want someone who doesn’t know what “go along to get along,” means. Someone who believes in citizen legislators, who believe in term limits, who comes from the real world, believes public service is just that, and wants to get involved for a limited amount of time and then go back to their careers. Why do we need another Robert Byrd, who has been in the Senate for fifty years, or a Strom Thurmond, who served until he was 100 years old? The first thing on the minds of career politicians is, “how do I get myself re-elected?” They don’t want to rock the boat, they don’t want to lead, and they want to be as inoffensive as possible so they will be the “safe” choice.
We need to shake things up. We need fresh ideas. We need people who are fresh out of the real world where jobs are created, payrolls are met, profits are made, budgets are adhered to and when you take risks, there are consequences. We have huge problems to solve and most of them mean taking apart the government, and putting it back together as an efficient organization that allows individuals to run their own lives, have as much liberty as possible, and frees them to pursue their own personal happiness. We need to dump the nanny state and foster personal responsibility. That means providing for ourselves and our families, and supporting our communities through volunteering, personal giving to charities, and not having the government forcefully take the fruit of our labors and giving it to their special interest friends who work to get them reelected to repeat the process.
