Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.
When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.