When election season starts coming around every four years, there are many different aspects to planning out how to proceed and how to win, when it comes to the candidates or the President of the United States. Most of the time they base their campaigns on winning over their party population whether that be Democratic or Republican. But what happens when this candidate gets elected? Are their best interests in the people or in their own endeavors? Political scientist Morris P. Fiorina makes three claims about the elected candidate and us citizens; that the President will act in greed and self-interest in order to get power, that they will want to be re-elected in the next term, and if we, as voters, get along with the party of the President,
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“The Rise of the Washington Establishment” is a fascinating article by Morris P. Fiorina that argues that members of Congress become egocentric within their own professional careers instead of seeking to represent those voters that …show more content…
Lawmaking is important when it comes to politics, because there will always be people (or voters) that need justice. Next, investing in pork barrelling or federal projects such as dams or national parks helps the candidate look really, really good until he wins and can focus on what he wants to work on. Last, candidates who zone in on casework, usually get to work with the federal government and get a feel of what is going on and how to play the system. It is almost like a big game of “Who can sneak around and have voters following me faster?”. The ironic thing is that they do this all with looking like respected runners of presidency, and what really takes the cake is that the more activities they participate in, the more we will want to follow them, making their parties bigger and bigger.
Morris P. Fiorina argues that members of Congress become egotistical in their fight to become President instead of helping the voter population of the United States in his article “The Rise of the Washington Establishment”. So what, as voters, should we think of all this information? The truth is, I have no idea, but, as long as we are well informed on how candidates work beyond the red, white, and blue streamers and confetti, I am sure we will all be
“The Rise of the Washington Establishment” is a fascinating article by Morris P. Fiorina that argues that members of Congress become egocentric within their own professional careers instead of seeking to represent those voters that …show more content…
Lawmaking is important when it comes to politics, because there will always be people (or voters) that need justice. Next, investing in pork barrelling or federal projects such as dams or national parks helps the candidate look really, really good until he wins and can focus on what he wants to work on. Last, candidates who zone in on casework, usually get to work with the federal government and get a feel of what is going on and how to play the system. It is almost like a big game of “Who can sneak around and have voters following me faster?”. The ironic thing is that they do this all with looking like respected runners of presidency, and what really takes the cake is that the more activities they participate in, the more we will want to follow them, making their parties bigger and bigger.
Morris P. Fiorina argues that members of Congress become egotistical in their fight to become President instead of helping the voter population of the United States in his article “The Rise of the Washington Establishment”. So what, as voters, should we think of all this information? The truth is, I have no idea, but, as long as we are well informed on how candidates work beyond the red, white, and blue streamers and confetti, I am sure we will all be