Posted on 03/23/2016 5:45:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Washington political establishment has hit the panic button. Not because they are afraid of any one individual or candidate, but because they are afraid of losing their own political power.
This town is filled with well intentioned people who believe they are doing the right thing, but far too many have lost their way after years in Washington. Politicians pay more attention to special interests groups and powerful lobbyists writing checks to their next campaigns than listening to the people back home who sent them here in the first place.
This dangerous power vacuum has fueled frustration and created an entirely new breed of disenfranchised voters who are fed up with the status quo. These are real people, their anger is palpable, and it’s not going away anytime soon.
A recent survey of likely Republican primary voters showed that 86 percent believe that “people like me don’t have any say about what the government does.” Another recent exit poll in my home state of Georgia showed that six in ten Republicans felt “betrayed” by their political party.
This sentiment is something I heard countless times during my campaign for the United States Senate just over a short year ago. It is what pulled me to get involved personally to try and make a difference. But this is not just happening in Georgia. People across America are angry, frustrated, and scared because they feel as though Washington is not listening to them.
A growing number of Americans are more motivated by this feeling of frustration than any individual political ideology. The rise of career politicians has completely shifted the political paradigm from just liberal versus conservative. There is now a disconnect between the Washington political class and everybody else—the insiders versus the outsiders.
When most Americans look at the federal government, all they see is years of failed policies that have made life harder for them and their families, and a political class that is well connected and uninterested in giving them a say in how to right the ship.
People are still hurting, and they are weary of Washington’s penchant for business as usual. Georgians sent me—someone who had never run for elected office—to the United States Senate to try and do something about it and change the system. In state after state this year, voters have voiced support for presidential candidates who are not part of the political class.
This is a growing movement, and it is bigger than any one candidate or election victory. Unless the political establishment is willing to learn from the anger felt by millions of Americans who feel left behind, this will not end in November.
True to form, though, political elites prefer tearing down individuals to understanding what created this movement. This movement of Americans wants nothing to do with Washington, and neither endorsements nor criticisms are going to change that.
The proportions are the other way around.
. This town is filled with well intentioned people who believe they are doing the right thing...
anyone think he typed that with a straight face?
Really?
LOL, all within a minute.
This town is filled with well intentioned people who believe they are doing the right thing
We really need MANDATORY Drug and Alcohol Screening for Elected Officials. This guy has been hitting the pipe HARD!
:) It GLARED out of the article!!!
but with the US president taking a picture with Che in the background, I guess anything can be said and done now.
It just goes to show that nobody is fooled by the ruling class nonsense anymore despite how often they try to assert otherwise.
Unless the political establishment is willing to learn from the anger felt by millions of Americans
Expect the rules to be changed for 2020 (if not 2016). They haven’t learned quick enough this year but it’s obvious they’ve learned there is a problem with the rules.
And the non indictment of their club member named Hillary will cement this fact in every neutral observer's mind. In fact it may be just the thing that begins the impromptu marches demanding justice.
if you just stole $21 trillion with little hope of ever paying it back.... WOULD you want to be IN CONTROL when the shift...???
They are not losing control.... they are setting up a patsy to be IN CONTROL....and take the BLAME....
They should count themselves fortunate.
Unlike the ruling class in many countries, they are going
to lose control AND live to tell the tale.
No, Washington is filled with people who are certain they know what is best for everyone else and people are just too stupid to understand or see their brilliance.
Tell me, why is Congress exempt from Obamacare if it is such a fantastic thing and is forced upon everyone else? Why has ethanol been proven - proven - more harmful and wasteful and yet no one will release the public from this hated mandate?
No, the Washington cartel is filled with selfish arrogance. They do no serve the people, they exist to aggregate power and wealth unto themselves and this is now seen more clearly than ever.
We were the undisputed leader in all the right ways, quality of life, upward mobility, technology, liberty, but under the burdensome weight of a federal government that metastasized, and a president determined to degrade the nation, we are now descending head first into the abyss of failed nations.
Washington DC is to blame.
This town is filled with incompetents who are lining their own pockets while taking down the Republic. They have no clue what the right things is and spend their lives in company with other paid shills who will tell them why they are doing the right thing when they run the country into a sewer and rob it blind for their crony friends.
Just look at the latest example the F-35 boondoggle, which is now admitted to be an underperforming piece of junk.
Like the tale of the frog and the scorpion or the tale of the snake "I was a snake when you took me in" the political establishment cannot learn. They were stupid in the first place. All those fancy degrees were granted cum laude by professors who learned how to pick out the dumb ones who could be easily indoctrinated - a political class who don't need Ritalin because they have no gumption but to do what they are told.
Socrates versus Plato, I believe.
Is the average person an idiot who needs to be told what to do by the smarter 10%?
Or is the average person capable of making their own decisions and the management / leadership / dictates should be at a minimum?
In general, liberals are the first while conservatives are the second.
And too many party leaders in the Republican party are the “you need me to tell you what to do” group, while Democrats have unabashedly been the second for years. Hence the feeling of betrayal by conservatives, while liberals have had community organizers and race baiters for decades who promised to take care of you in return for doing X, Y and Z.
It’s much simpler. They are corrupt. They continually sell the nation and the people’s interests to the highest bidder -domestic or foreign. And their betrayal includes espionage, as in the case of the Clintons and Hillary’s email server.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.