Have you lost faith, or some faith, in politicians, the national parties and our country's leadership?

I had to stop and think about this for a bit longer than a second and the answer I have come up with is no I have not lost faith in the politicians, national parties, or the country's leadership. Firstly in every election since '92 I have voted for the President who won the election except for the first term of George W. Bush where I voted for Al Gore and even at the local level in New Hampshire every Congressional election that I have participates in the candidate I voted for has been elected so I can basically say I have elected the leaders that represent me at the state and national levels.

I do not flip on my candidates, I want them to succeed at what they set out to do, that is why I elected them. I also understand that the systems of opposing parties, partisan politics, and terms and term limits will all be obstacles in each of the politicians I have elected paths to the objectives the demonstrated in their campaigns. Things change and needs change and not one politician will get done exactly what it is they set out to do.. this is the way American politics should work.

Each politician should contribute to the whole not define it, if a single political were to be able to overcome all of these obstacles and actually get everything they want accomplished well that would be a dictatorship then and not a democracy. Democracy needs the failures of politicians as much as the successes and form both sides of the aisle. We need both Republicans and Democrats (and the fringe and Independents) to both succeed and fail to come up with a good representation of all of the people.It is in the failures and compromises politicians make that the truth of what is needed by the American people is found and implemented.

I have faith that all of this is going on as I expected. My guys (or girls) usually win the election and then the have typical and expected success and failures and it is to me this natural progression of American politics that keeps America on the right track.. and this track although right, never ever ends, there is no final destination. We never graduate to a higher plane of political Utopia, there will always be ups, downs, successes, and failures.

All of these are integral parts of the American political fabric and I have faith it shall be this way for some time to come.

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