John Washington III Asks How Politicians Can Claim to Work for the People Without Fighting for Them

John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, is asking how politicians can claim to work for the people when they never fight for the people. In his post, John Washington III wrote that every election season brings the same claims - "I'm working for the people," "I'm fighting for the people," "I'm here to represent the people" - and he asked: "Where is the fight?" When police officers abuse their authority or engage in corruption, John Washington III asked, where are the politicians who claim to represent the people, and why are they not fighting to hold corrupt officers accountable or standing up for the citizens who put them in office?

John Washington III then turned to property taxes. He asked why politicians always talk about lowering property taxes but never seriously discuss ending property taxes on the homes people own and live in, and why a family should spend 20 or 30 years paying off a home and then keep paying property taxes on it for the rest of their lives. "When do the people actually get to own what they worked their entire lives to pay for?" John Washington III wrote.

John Washington III also asked how a politician can campaign on lowering property taxes, get elected, and then vote for tax increases - and how many citizens even know what is being voted on when those votes happen. He asked why the people are not made fully aware of decisions that could raise their property tax bills, and he closed the questions with three of his own: "Where is the transparency? Where is the accountability? Where is the representation?" A politician cannot claim to fight for the people in front of cameras, John Washington III wrote, and then ignore the issues affecting their everyday lives in office.