Joan Marie Nagy
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003

The American public is dissatisfied with a certain class of politician, but it's not the incumbent politician suffering the disconnect.

The American voting public is finally becoming disenchanted with the professional career politician. We saw it in the elections of Gov. Jesse Ventura and Gov.-elect Schwarzenegger. Americans were voting deliberately and decisively for the non-politician over the longtime professional politician, and laughing at the charge that their candidate is unqualified to undo the damage wrought by the more “qualified” career politician.

We see it now with the Democrat presidential candidates, with Howard Dean and Wesley Clark leading the pack of Armani suit-wearing, Washington beltway-living, intellectually elitist-believing, power-grubbing political hacks who glad-hand their way through church bingos, chicken dinner fund raisers and local Rotary meetings, pandering for votes and clueless to the lives of the people whom they claim to represent.

Something happens to the minds, hearts and souls of individuals who spend their entire adult lives prostituting their core beliefs and values to each and every special interest group that promises to gather them votes, in pursuit of a lifetime of personal power dedicated to enriching themselves at the expense of their country’s well-being.

The career politicians, or, as one could call them, “the winners of life’s lucrative pensions,” who attach themselves to the tax-funded public trough the way a blood-sucking leech attaches itself to a bloated corpse, covet and pursue personal power under the guise of public service.

This is an anomaly of the way our founding fathers intended our system of government to work. They wanted the House of Representatives to be composed of citizen politicians who left their farms, stores and small businesses for a few years to serve their fellow Americans in the House – after which they would return home to continue their professions, living and working under the very laws they enacted.

The Senate was to be composed of distinguished citizens chosen by each state to serve longer terms as stewards of states' rights against the encroachment of the larger federal government powers.

This pristine and idyllic system has degenerated into today’s system of empty-suited, Pepsodent-smiling, WPA backward-thinking, Swiss cheese- eating, labor union-leaning, polling-taking, focus group-leading, union- pandering, professional career politician who seeks resume enhancement, private wealth and public acclaim.

Today’s professional politician is the slimy scum our founding fathers would mercifully scrap off the bottom of their boots before entering the homes of decent folks.

Joan Nagy can be contacted by e-mail at JoanMarieNagy@aol.com.

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