Political Nevada

During every election cycle, and especially this one, we keep hearing about those in office are the “Career Politicians” and those that are running against them for that office are not politicians, just simple folks like you and me.
Guess what? As soon as a person runs for office they become a politician. It doesn’t matter if they never held office, the moment they “throw their hat in the ring” they qualify as politicians.
In the case of the Senate Race for Nevada, every one of the Republicans competing for the privilege to run against Senator Harry Reid, became the thing they are saying that they are not. They have all become politicians.
Several were previously elected officials, one tried to get elected several times and failed, and then there is one who has spent the last 20 years living and working in the other side of the country. This person wants to represent a state that he hasn’t been involved in since he was a young man. He has stated that he wants to represent Nevada because he is not a politician; actually he is more of a politician than those that have previously held office. Being born and living in a place for a few years doesn’t keep you qualified to represent that state,(or city, town, county, etc.), but a true politician wouldn’t let that stop him or her from running.
Every person who gets their name on the ballot, has transformed themselves into “The Politician”. As soon as they decide to run for an office they will be looking for political support and making promises that they are constantly criticizing their opponent for making, because that opponent is a “career politician”. But to beat that career politician they will become that which they claim they detest; they will become a politician, and unless they resign after their first term has ended, they will become a “Career Politician”.
These non-career politicians want the voter to believe that if elected they will do “this, or fulfill the obligation to do “that”, but they fail to add the realization that they will be the junior politician who will be told what to vote on, how to vote, and when to vote by the party they represent which will always be run by their own “career politicians”. Of course, since it will be their “career politicians”, it won’t count. After all everyone knows that “my party is always right and the opposition party is always wrong, and we really don’t have career politicians, because only the opposition has career politicians”.
Want to eliminate career politicians? Don’t allow any term to be more than two years and once that term is ended, the career in politics, at any level, ends. Political service should be voluntary, with no benefits, so there would be no obvious incentive to run for any office. With only a few years in office, that ex-office holder would have no special “clout” with any government entity so their would be no incentive from the corporate world.
Guaranteed that the majority of people running under the excuse that we have too many career politicians would fight to prevent ending careers because they would be ending their own possibilities.
Complaining about the Career Politicians is like complaining about the weather. Career Politicians are as much a part of nature as an earthquake. Just like in an earthquake, the only choices are to wait to access the damage, run away, or hide somewhere safe until its safe to come outside.