Every election cycle, I feel like I am once again rolling my eyes at my loopy-eyed girlfriend who suddenly thinks the guy who hasn’t text her back for 4 years has “changed” because he slid in her DM’s now that he’s alone. Your politicians don’t need you to swoon over them, form tribes under their banners, and pledge your allegiance to their Royal Highness. Understand, your politicians work for you. If your politicians are going to receive the honor of your vote, in service of you—which is what it means to live in a democratic republic and not under a “Supreme Leader”—they must work to earn it. This is not a false dilemma where every cycle we have to say “which is the worse of two evils?” we actually decide who and what we want, and we do so not by “choosing” the “lesser evil” but by demanding the standards we set for ourselves as a society. When you accept less, you get less. Democrats have a policy of appeasing the terrorists. This isn’t an opinion, a whim, a passing thought, or a one time error. This is a matter of policy. This policy is the reason the regime exists in Iran, the Taliban exists in Afghanistan, the proxies are stationed in Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan in Syria, and the reason for October 7 & the subsequent war. Again, not an error or mistake, a matter of policy. Today, instead of swooning with heart eyes and love letters to giants, snap back to democracy and make demands of those who are asking for the privilege of working for you. Ask them, what will your policy be toward the regime? What will your policy be toward escalating aggression in the Middle East? Will you be proactive, reactive, or inactive? How about the regimes kidnapping of American dissidents? How about the proxies attacks in the Middle East? What is your plan? What is your strategy? How have you prepared for inbound aggression? Will you act offensively or defensively? Why? What is the end goal? Until they provide you proof that they work in service of you and in furtherance of our collective safety, they have not earned your vote. Just like the loopy-eyed girl, you don’t just give it out for free because you’re out of options - if it’s real, if it’s right for you, it has to be earned.
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