In relationships, when people don't fear you, they will do whatever they want to do.

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Voting and the relationship between a politician and the taxpayer, between the politician and

the citizen. That's what voting is. Voting is a relationship between two people. And when

you go into vote, you are saying by affirming for someone, I want to be in a relationship

or I am willing to be in a relationship with this person for the next two, four or six

years depending on the office that they desire to seek. It's a big reason why I leave

the majority of my ballot blank. I did it again this year. I voted on Saturday and I left

most of my ballot blank because the majority of candidates, even if they were running

on a post, did not earn my vote. They didn't ask for my vote. They didn't tell me what they

would do. Look, I get it. If your whole goes and get elected and you're running on a

post and many of the races in Hendricks County where I live, there's no Democrat challenger,

then I guess you don't have to earn my vote, but I'm not giving it away. You're just like

with a relationship, you're going to earn the right to be in that relationship. I always

told the story. When I first met my wife, she worked here. She was super liberal. I said,

that ain't going to work. You want to be with this? You better shape up or you're going

to shape out. And you know what? She shaped up quick. She's more conservative than I am now.

The point is though, you should demand from the politicians what you would demand from

a spouse or a partner. And when you allow politicians to not be held to that standard,

you get what we have in society today in which politicians believe and rightfully so they

can say and do just about anything because they don't fear you. Politicians will always

cater to the people they fear because politicians for the most part exist to be in office.

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