They were revolutionaries who risked everything for freedom.
The Founding Fathers didn’t want career politicians
Our Founding Fathers recognized the importance of having citizen politicians.
And The Founding Fathers were not career politicians.
Citizen politicians defined more than 248 years ago as people who participate in the political process, and these people come from all walks of life, such as farmers, businesses, law practices, inn keepers, chimney sweepers and schoolteachers.
These citizen politicians’ participation in the people’s government resulted in fresh new realistic practical ideas from the communities they live in. These ideas come from the community bringing reality and cultural inspiration based on real-world experiences. These citizen politicians represent the people’s government and after their politicking is done, they simply travel home to their private citizen lives once again.
What is deeply saddening is the evolutionary process of the professional politician, who’s only goal in life is to stay in that elected seat full-time and forever. Resulting in stagnant ideas, with no possible sense of connection to the real people that elected them. In addition, a lack of connection to any sense of reality at all, these professional politicians are more closely aligned to an elitist mindset nowhere grounded to the community they are supposed to represent.
Our Founding Fathers never intended to make citizens full-time politicians, or they would have written term limits into the Constitution for all elected officials from dogcatcher to the president, do you agree?
I was watching a clip of Sen. Ben Sasse on Colbert, and he repeated an idea that I’ve heard countless times since forever: that Congress isn’t functioning the way the founders imagined, and that the body is at its second weakest in U.S. history.
Senator Ben Sasse: Congress Isn’t Working
“The Founders didn’t have a vision of the world where people wanted to be in politics, move to DC, and stay there forever. You’re supposed to think the place you’re from is the most interesting place in the world. We use the term historically “public service,” because you go to Washington to serve for a time then go back home. Right now most people in Washington, their biggest long-term thought is about their own incumbency.”
As the audience did the obligatory applause for this feel-good truism, I realized that every Founder I could name off the top of my head was a lifelong politician with about 30 years working in federal politics and government.
However, it would be more accurate to say that this vision of a political leader was more of an aspiration or a theoretical influence on the Founders than to say that it was what they’d experienced for themselves, or what they actually expected of the nation they were founding.
Certainly career politicians existed both in England and to a lesser degree in the colonies, and every one of the Founders would have had a good idea of what they were like. But Enlightenment ideas about early Greek and Roman democracies/republics were a strong influence on the political philosophy of the day, and the idea of the citizen-politician who preferred a quiet life at home to the accumulation of permanent power was an ideal that many of them appreciated.
The Society of the Cincinnati, a post-Revolutionary association of veterans of that war, was named for Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman who was supposedly granted supreme dictatorial powers to deal with an emergency, refrained from using it to enrich himself or build a political power base, and retired peacefully to his farm to live out the rest of his days. Parallels were drawn between his example and that of George Washington when he refrained from using his postwar prominence and Presidency to enrich his family or entrench his power base.
There is a long standing debate about the nature of elected office.
On the one hand is the delegate model of representation. Our elected legislators are there to express the interests of the people who elect them. They should not express their own conscience nor invoke their own expertise where it conflicts with the interests or opinions of the constituency. In this model, the representative should be of short-duration for fear that their will be captured by the interests and fashions of the capital. Sasse is arguing this view.
This model was contested most famously by Edmund Burke in his formulation of the trustee model of representation in 1774. The people select a trustee who is somewhat autonomous and may act in the common good or the national interest, as opposed to the parochial interests of the constituency. Burke encapsulated this as:
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
Burke is considered the father of modern British conservatism. He was a leading MP during the Revolution, lending his support to the grievances of the American colonies and promoting a peaceful reconciliation between Britain and America in advance of Lexington and Concord. The founding fathers were not only aware of Burke, but intimately and actively involved in that exact debate.
Sources: Burke’s Speech to the Electors at Bristol at the Conclusion of the Poll (1774) from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Volume I (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854)
Is there any truth to this notion at all?
Certainly, it’s wrong to say that Jefferson or Madison couldn’t imagine it.
Was that ever the “norm” for national politics?
If it was merely an aspirational desire, was it ever achieved to any degree?
And why did so many of them discard that ideal to further their own careers?
President Trump’s America-first agenda and Elon Musk (through DOGE) has made it really easy to find the corrupt thieves in Washington D.C, in the Republican and Democrat parties, and in the judicial system – including SCOTUS.
Corruption in D.C. isn’t partisan—it’s systemic. The DOGE investigation into lawmakers’ wealth exposed how career politicians magically turn $174K salaries into $20M fortunes. Pelosi’s venture capitalist ties, Schumer’s portfolio spikes before key votes, and the STOCK Act’s laughable enforcement prove both parties game the system. SCOTUS? Let’s just say lifetime appointments with zero accountability aren’t helping. The real issue? A swamp so deep it takes an outsider like Musk to drain it. But don’t hold your breath—career bureaucrats and their legal shields make accountability a pipe dream. As an American citizen, it’s infuriating to know about all the corruption – now with data to back it up—and
just sit around waiting for the FBI or The DOJ to act! 
I get that investigations
take time, but people don’t want to wait years for justice. 
Something’s got to give—we need results now!
Yes and if you aren’t yet following her @DataRepublican has taken the DOGE findings to the next level and truly connected the dots with AI tools. She’s named the names and uncovered all the NGO connections. Between DOGE and Data they have nowhere left to hide.
DEFRAUDING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Racketeering Enterprise by the Washington establishment. So true! President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE are shining a light on the corruption in D.C. and SCOTUS.
We need this accountability! 
#AmericaFirst
It took a total team effort from Democratic politicians to the White House staff to the media to hide the fact that the President of the United States was mentally diminished.
If there were a RICO crime, half of Washington would be frog-marched to the nearest federal courthouse. They’re squirming bro, exposed as the thieves they are, hoarding power while the hardworking American gets crushed.
If you’re not with MAGA, you’re with the swamp, 100%. So, pick a side, stand with Trump and Musk to drain this cesspool, or slink back to the shadows with the RINOs and leftists. There’s no middle ground anymore.
Knowing who they are, Pres Trump has still been running into roadblocks, either the AG, DOJ along with the FBI becomes as aggressive as the Dems are in stopping the Pres policies the next four years will be just or nearly as frustrating as the Biden years concerning America.
True. President Trump’s America-First agenda and Musk’s push for transparency have exposed the corruption on both sides of the aisle.
It’s time to hold Washington accountable – no matter who’s involved.
In that Administration Joe Biden was never in control. A cabal of insiders orchestrated a scheme to deceive the nation for their own gain. Greed and unstoppable power. A free-for-all went on under an enfeebled President and insiders covered it up. America paid the price. Questions about Joe Biden’s fragility were swatted away like flies and a hawkish Jill Ed.D controlled the swatter. It took an army to pull it off.
An army of Washington fat cats, invisible shadow actors, staffers, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, the media.
Biden was plopped in the Oval. A fake “Mattel dream White House” set was established to accommodate the senior needs of the mentally declining Biden. The big lie. Because Democrats refused to let Trump win. Denials and sharp as tack campaigns ebbed and flowed. A disastrous four years of obscene spending policies and topless trans on the lawn at the White House.
The list of disgraces goes on and on. And just like that, it all ended. Trump won!!!
But something new in the House of Secrets has shifted.
A parade of insider confessions about the autopen era are suddenly gushing forth.
What’s changed? Jake Tapper’s bombshell book ‘Original Sin’—it indicates a coverup of a steeply declining Joe Biden. A curious endeavor, considering Tapper was Biden’s go-to guy, he HAD to have known Joe was failing.
In fact, he DID know. Quite a lot. Tapper just didn’t report on it to save America from the biggest political heist in the history of this great country. Instead, he decided to monetize his findings in a bestseller, which presumably, had Biden won, be released in Joe 2.0.
After the public outrage, Kamala Harris — who can’t win without a coronation, would be installed. They almost pulled it off. But they didn’t count on America rejecting Democrat policies and electing Donald Trump. Tapper’s soon to be released tell-all has DC insiders in a coverup panic.
So one by one, we get true confessions from Jenny Psaki on air, denying she knew and Karine Jean-Pierre—in a “who’s Joe?” moment claimed she “rarely saw Biden.
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The first black lesbian press secretary was Biden’s trophy on the Mattel White House wall. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security advisor denies the deep state ran the country in the fake Biden presidency. But wait. In a plot twist, comes an unexpected bombshell release —AHEAD of Tapper’s book.
An audio snippet of Special Counsel Hur’s classified document deposition. – Search No amount of conscience cleansing admissions can excuse away the elder abuse, in the Biden era. Watch clueless Joe in this clip from 2022. Three years ago.
Joe Biden was left to wander around the room, clearly lost. – Search Videos
It was heart wrenching watching Biden and should be a history lesson.
While the real president, Barack Obama basked in the glow of 12 years of Obamacare. The Afghanistan withdrawal, Deception, lies, pardons, rogue judge appointments, to the federal agency thievery, while laundering taxpayer money t0 the war in Ukraine.
It was a bogus stolen election of a 4-year farce to behold.
When was Michelle Obama was Vice President?
Joe was never Vice President either.
Americans watched a carefully orchestrated plan unfold. It was the best kept secret. Dare to question the mental faculties of the 46th commander-in-chief, and the shame army came out. Upsets on the domestic and global stage—blunders, the hand shakes with thin air happened with frequency.
A loyal press scrubbed each embarrassing incident away. Joe Biden was trotted out like a circus pony to follow the tape arrows on the floor, to read scripts crafted by others, and to smile and nod. It was the dirtiest bait and switch pulled on Americans in the modern era. When Biden decided to run for a second term (God help us) aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.
Barack Obama’s Hope and change of a transformational America came to pass in 1.0.
The greatest nation on earth was to become barely recognizable…that was the plan. And here we are. Biden’s coverup crew needs to be held accountable. The department of justice must act so this level of abuse, overreach, and deception never happens again.