Vote out the politics of personal destruction and the criminalization of politics

While these negative political practices often work for the political sponsors, they don’t work for the Nation. Just look at the difficulty now in filling citizen politician positions in Washington, D.C. While the national population is up, the pool of desired volunteers is down. Many other less experienced volunteers do step up, but the Nation suffers from this lack of experience, often called the school of hard knocks. And this problem crosses the boundaries of the two national political parties, the executive and the congress, and the timing as to where the hiring person is in their elected period.

The problem is nationally recognized as “non-partisanship”, a nicer buzzword than something like the “criminalization of politics”. The cause can be debated, though the two main theories are: 1) the Clintons brought State politics to the Nation; and 2) the 1994 Republican take over of the House and the Congress ruined enough careers to prompt a payback, acerbated by Republican arrogance that rubbed salt into some wounds. And there are other theories, but the bottom line still is the National problem.

Most voters don’t give a rat’s patooey about the problem’s impacts on one or the other political parties. This applies as well to interrupted staff careers, and bruised egos. Most expect today's politicians to sort it out, make it happen, etc. After all, we have a Nation to live in for now and in the future, and common sense alone says we want the best citizen politicians and their hired staffs we can get to do all the domestic and foreign things that “promote our general well being”.

The evidence is compounding that the politicians inside of the D.C. beltway cannot do this, for good or bad reason. The evidence is compounding that the continued practices of the politics of personal destruction will continue well beyond 2008, and so our National descent into banana republic status and practices. The evidence is that most standing candidates get reelected.

Unless … we vote in new representatives who will break this trend of National destruction, and keep the citizen politicians coming to rule and manage us for our benefit.