There are 2 types of politicians

There are 2 types of politicians, the fancy politician and the calloused hand politician.
The fancy, fast talking, and back slapping politician loves the spotlight while the calloused hand politician sits modestly in the background.
The fancy politician has a mansion making 200,000 a yr while the calloused hand politician lives in a 2500 Sq ft house.
The fancy politician goes home to confusion and chaos, his wife hates him and is cheating on him, his kids don't love him and are always in trouble in school.
The calloused hand bone crunching handshake politician goes home to order where his wife is anxiously waiting for him. His kids look up to him and adore him. His kids are never in trouble in school and may take advantage of extra curricular activities.
The fancy politician may talk but can't walk.
The callous hand politician is humble because he knows he can walk.
The fancy politician on a yearly salary is living amongst his earnings taking pac money while the calloused hand politician lives a normal modest life from his earnings without pac money.
The fancy show off politician wears $5,000 suits while the calloused hand politician wears a sweater from a thrift store.
The fancy politician has hands smooth as silk and the calloused hand politician has scars, cuts and rough hands with a bone crunching hand shake.
If it cane down to me and they were tied in an election I would vote for the bone crunching hand shake politician because he understands the people and truly believes in what he's doing and once that fancy politician bought that $5,000 suit is the day he lost that connection with the people and then it became all about him.

 

Just be careful of the ones who merely pretend to be the bone crunching hand shake politicians. The wolves in a sheep's clothing, who merely tell you exactly the things you'd wanna hear. The people, who're also commonly known as "populists". Always make sure your guy is legit.

 

Right!

 

Pedant alert: For those of you for whom English is not your first language, the OP meant 'callused hands'.

I agree with the sentiment of the OP but, I'm not sure how many politicians have done a hard physical days work in their life, to have such callused hands.
I've met quite a few and none has anything but soft hands. (I'm referring the the UK). Not a fault however.
Some are very empathetic and understand people. Just because they are in a so-called $5k suit doesn't mean they are out of touch.
Indeed, I recall reading about a politician from the 70s, who wore the charity shop sweater and met his 'people' in a little shed, to 'demonstrate' his empathy with them.
And after meeting them, he went back to his palace and changed into his normal clothing.
Rightly or wrongly, some referred to him as a champagne socialist whilst others again (rightly or wrongly), referred to him as a crook.

He was deposed/dethroned when the people found him out.

 

These are the ones you don't ever hear about like independents