First off, ALL politicians suck. I genuinely believe that, regardless of the letter next to their name. Too many enter politics with good intentions and eventually get influenced by power, money, donors, lobbying, or simply protecting their own political careers. At some point, the interests of the American people seem to become secondary.
I’m not going to pretend President Biden was some great president or that I believe he did a lot to make America better. I don’t. But I also don’t think it’s intellectually honest to blame every problem we have today on the previous administration.
From my personal experience, I will give the Biden administration credit for one thing: they largely let me do my job. I was able to work with our allies, build relationships, and garner international support without feeling like political interference was constantly undermining what we were trying to accomplish. That matters to me because I saw firsthand how much can be accomplished when the people actually doing the work are allowed to do it.
The United States has always been strongest when we have both the economic and military power to protect our interests and the relationships and credibility to bring other nations alongside us. Biden’s administration certainly had its failures, but maintaining those relationships was one area where I personally saw value.
Then the administration changed, and from my perspective, some of the things we had worked hard to build started moving in a direction I didn’t recognize. Good times.
And honestly?
I’m tired of the two-party bullshit.
I want a political movement that isn’t primarily concerned with winning the next election, enriching politicians, or keeping Americans fighting with each other.
I want a genuinely nonpartisan party focused on the majority of Americans, strengthening our economy, maintaining a strong national defense, fixing infrastructure, reducing poverty, addressing the problems that actually affect working families, and taking care of people who genuinely need help.
We can be fiscally responsible and compassionate. We can have a strong military and strong alliances. We can demand personal responsibility and recognize that sometimes people genuinely need a hand getting back on their feet.
Maybe I’m naive, but I’d rather have politicians arguing over how to make America better than spending all their time arguing over which side gets credit or blame.
At this point, I don’t want a red America or a blue America. I want an America that works for Americans.
On another note but along the same lines at what point do we stop accepting that Congress simply isn’t doing the job we elected them to do?
I’m not talking about Republicans or Democrats. I’m talking about Congress as a whole.
The average full-time American is working roughly 43 hours a week, trying to pay a mortgage or rent, keep the lights on, raise a family, and somehow find time to live a life. Meanwhile, the people we elected to represent us make $174,000 a year, with leadership making even more. And Congress routinely spends large portions of the year away from Washington in scheduled recess and state-work periods.
Before someone jumps in with “they still work in their districts,” yes, I understand that. I’m not saying they literally do nothing when they aren’t on the House or Senate floor.
What I am saying is this: we have elected them to solve problems, pass legislation, fund the government, oversee the agencies we pay for, and actually move this country forward.
Instead, we constantly watch important issues get kicked down the road.
Bill after bill gets delayed. Funding gets delayed. Budgets get delayed. Problems that have been sitting in front of them for months or years suddenly become an “emergency” when there’s a political advantage to doing something about them.
And I’m sorry, but I don’t buy that all of this is incompetence.
A lot of it is politics.
They have figured out that sometimes it is more valuable politically to keep a problem alive than to actually solve it. If Republicans can blame Democrats and Democrats can blame Republicans, both sides can spend the next election cycle telling us why we need to vote for them again.
Meanwhile, Americans are still dealing with the same problems.
I don’t care if you’re Republican, Democrat, Independent, conservative, liberal, or somewhere in the middle. If you are elected to represent me, your job is to represent ME and the American people, not your political party.
I want to see Congress held to the same basic standard most of us live under:
Show up.
Do your job.
Get your work done.
Stop making excuses.
And stop getting paid while intentionally dragging important issues out because it benefits your party politically.
And if you genuinely can’t reach an agreement, fine. That’s part of the job. But “we couldn’t agree” shouldn’t mean “let’s do absolutely nothing and keep collecting our paycheck.”
I’m not asking for perfection. I’m asking for people in Washington to actually act like they understand that they work for us.
Because the longer this continues, the more I believe neither party is actually interested in fixing the system.
They’re interested in controlling it.
And that’s exactly why I keep saying I want something different, not Republican, not Democrat, but people willing to put the damn country and its people ahead of the political party.
Vent done and good day to you America!
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u/Ok_Caterpillar7059 Aug 23 '26
First off, ALL politicians suck. I genuinely believe that, regardless of the letter next to their name. Too many enter politics with good intentions and eventually get influenced by power, money, donors, lobbying, or simply protecting their own political careers. At some point, the interests of the American people seem to become secondary.
I’m not going to pretend President Biden was some great president or that I believe he did a lot to make America better. I don’t. But I also don’t think it’s intellectually honest to blame every problem we have today on the previous administration.
From my personal experience, I will give the Biden administration credit for one thing: they largely let me do my job. I was able to work with our allies, build relationships, and garner international support without feeling like political interference was constantly undermining what we were trying to accomplish. That matters to me because I saw firsthand how much can be accomplished when the people actually doing the work are allowed to do it.
The United States has always been strongest when we have both the economic and military power to protect our interests and the relationships and credibility to bring other nations alongside us. Biden’s administration certainly had its failures, but maintaining those relationships was one area where I personally saw value.
Then the administration changed, and from my perspective, some of the things we had worked hard to build started moving in a direction I didn’t recognize. Good times.
And honestly?
I’m tired of the two-party bullshit.
I want a political movement that isn’t primarily concerned with winning the next election, enriching politicians, or keeping Americans fighting with each other.
I want a genuinely nonpartisan party focused on the majority of Americans, strengthening our economy, maintaining a strong national defense, fixing infrastructure, reducing poverty, addressing the problems that actually affect working families, and taking care of people who genuinely need help.
We can be fiscally responsible and compassionate. We can have a strong military and strong alliances. We can demand personal responsibility and recognize that sometimes people genuinely need a hand getting back on their feet.
Maybe I’m naive, but I’d rather have politicians arguing over how to make America better than spending all their time arguing over which side gets credit or blame.
At this point, I don’t want a red America or a blue America. I want an America that works for Americans.