Reply #12: What exactly is political death? [View All]

[patriotvoice]

We the People must demand our politicians be held accountable. If our candidates refuse to hold others accountable, we do not elect them.

Let's run a Gedankenexperiment:
* We know that only a Democrat has a chance of winning against a Republican, so we can temporarily hold off on considering Independents, Greens, Reformists, and so on.
* We, as a party, demand Democratic candidate X make the following statement and hold him to it: "If elected President, I will hold people, including other politicians, accountable for their actions, regardless of their public office."

I agree that if the candidate makes the promise as I originaly laid it out, he'd be marginalized as a Reformist and that would turn many people off. But if he was the only contender against Bush, he'd still get our votes, yes?

After all, We the People define what is political death: you are dead if we don't vote for you. It's time We the People remember that we're in charge and start holding our politician's accountable. The first way to do that is by voting people into office who will keep their word and actually hold others accountable.