This is the second column in a 4-part series in the Washington Examiner by Carly Fiorina. This series focuses on what citizens can do to impact the political culture, their role in leading our citizen government, and will end with how to approach the 2018 midterm elections. You can read the first column here.

We succumb to the temptation over and over: Let’s just hand it over to the guy who promises to take care of everything for us.

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