Politicians Doing "The Right Thing?"

When a politician vows he will "do the right thing," be sure you ask him if he has contacted his constituents to find out what "the right thing" is.

If he hasn't asked them, he doesn't know. Politicians regularly exclaim that they are doing "the right thing" when they are just doing precisely whatever the hell they want to.

Politicians are elected to represent their own constituency -- not to get elected with lies, then grab power and suit themselves. There is deep-rooted rationalization in all three branches of government that some politicians use as excuses to overrule the folks at home, but a republic is a representative government -- which means we send our own elected representatives to Washington D.C. as well as Indianapolis, so that we don't all have to drive down there and vote on every bill and court decision, and approve or disapprove every political agenda item ourselves.

"The right thing" is not the product of a virgin birth out of politicians' brains. Most of the time, if politicians are really doing the will of the folks at home, they never have to make speeches to their constituents ASSERTING to them that they are doing the right thing. The people who voted for him or her will know.

It is a product of the constituents' will. Politicians are and will always be PUBLIC SERVANTS, and you should not let them ever forget that -- especially whenever they threaten to support policies AGAINST the wishes of the home community they campaigned to represent, including yours and mine.