No I do not work for the a newspaper…..no I am not a Republican or Democrat at this moment, for this post. I am a VOTER!

I seems lots of people have forgotten about ‘the voter’…. But if one looks closely and listens closely, one realizes we know and recognize ourselves each day. We live in small towns and big cities. We home school and send to school. We watch news, sitcoms, and documentaries. We believe in God but proclaiming it comes softly and with few words..

We farm and we manufacture, we buy and sell. We save and invest, watching the stock market fluctuate with our retirement program. Our children have pets, take ballet, and swim lessons. Mothers are worried when their sons want to play football, and when their daughters do gymnastic cheer. Yes, we are the voters of this country.

And yet, we seem to be forgotten, overlooked, or just plain ignored. It was our understanding that people who chose to rise to public office did so because they felt the calling to represent us. They spoke to us in front of court house, in meetings at the local school, in family homes, and on street corners. They saw the need.

We didn’t change, we are still ‘the voter’. You, our representative, our voice, our redeemer, our trusted friend……have. We do not see you unless you are on a step in front of a public building with a microphone. We do not see you in attendance in the house or senate when the camera pans one of the most, if not the most important room of working democracy, in the world. We do not see you in our home town or district, or even our state, and the ‘surveys’ we get are slanted to the party of the sender and really another request for money.

You didn’t sell your soul to the voter, you sold it to your party and your position and guess what…..we all know it. Quietly, voters all over this United States discuss this…..They know who THEY are and who YOU are.

We also know, in our conversations, inside McDonalds, or Wendys with the morning breakfast crowd, that we are united almost 70% of the time concerning the running of our county, our state, and our federal government. We do not throw red or blue in to the conversation. We do not throw the color of each other’s skin in the discussion. We do not ignore problems of the Union with comments of ‘not working together’, and then return to chambers to trade off new street names, new basketball facilities, additional bridges, and 2 to 4 lane roads to nowhere. We know you, we know ‘fluff’ and we don’t like it.

We know Mr. Trump is waiting in the wings…Some of us wish there were more ‘mr.trumps’ waiting in the county court houses and all the way up to what we Americans think of as a ‘sacred democratic home of freedom’. It is time you did what we tell our kids to do when solving a problem…….’go look in the mirror’ and re-affirm what kind of person you are to the American voter. Your inability to stand up to the huge responsibility of representing us is so embarrassing. It is time for you to come home, not to speak, but to listen, not to blame but to accept blame….and to apologize for your actions and inactions.

History shows us that both parties and other political wannabes have bickered, confessed, and denied while trying do decide what was and is best for us, the voter. In the end though, it was the voter who was the victor, not the politician. Today, it is no one.

Contrary to popular opinion, you are not the deciding factor if you are in Washington…..states and their governments have a large say-so in many decisions you don’t need to worry about (that means ‘give up control) and go to your senate or house chair every day except ‘committee’ day…(novel idea committee day).

We will soon be voting whether to allow you to keep your seat or replace you with a new person who hopefully will listen and respond to us. If you keep it, fine, if you don’t fine…..but the sound of the ‘voter’ is ever so quietly walking towards Washington.

P.S Mr. Trump….Put together your organization and be waiting in the wings….and become the true statesman you are. Prove to the other party you are a president and problem solver for all….I’m sure Queen Elizabeth will give you some wonderful advice on how to handle ‘details’ that the crown should not discuss in the public forum.