Politicians and soldiers are the same.

Politicians are elected to strategically wield their political influence to further the interests of their constituents, the American people.

Soldiers are strategically trained and deployed to use special skills to defeat foes who are considered threats to the American way of life.

Innate to both is strategy: a careful, clever plan or method employed to attain a desired outcome.

Politicians are elected to be domestic soldiers. We should expect them to be skilled strategists and that their outcomes will further the interests of their constituents, the American people.

Losing small battles to win the larger war is a strategy. Embracing the risk of personal or political death and defeat in pursuit of constituent goals is to be expected as an occupational hazard.

Soldiers are trained to employ unique strategies on foreign soils against opposing forces that will keep them alive and further the preservation of the American way of life.

Embracing the risk of personal death and defeat in pursuit of preserving a way of life for all Americans is to be expected as an occupational hazard.

Soldiers would never fraternize with their enemies or foreign interests, foes of their end game.

Politicians should never fraternize with interests in opposition to their end game, yet they do all the time for selfish promotion and personal benefit under guise of political strategy.

As a soldier, ego will get you killed.

As a politician, ego will make you rich.