What Politicians Do and Don’t Do

What Politicians Do

  • Smile
  • Stay on message
  • Wag their fingers
  • Make Deals
  • Make sure their hair is perfect
  • Take money wherever they can get it
  • Find the camera
  • Pass the buck
  • Politic
  • Say whatever you want to hear
  • Play it safe
  • Campaign
  • Put the party first
  • Take credit
  • Lie

What Politicians Don’t Do

  • Answer the question
  • Clean their own toilets
  • Have genuine conversations
  • Know what the Founders wanted
  • Level with you
  • Associate with poor people
  • Accept blame
  • Know your name
  • Sacrifice
  • Listen
  • Inspire confidence
  • Put the public’s welfare first
  • Have any answers
  • Restore your faith in democracy
  • Get it

 

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