Who are the faithful?

Today my wife and I celebrate our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
It is a milestone. During those years, we raised a daughter (who appears to be on her way to bigger and better things), buried our parents, worked our way up to a nice neighborhood and are currently making plans on how to spend our golden years.
We had good times, bad times, fun times and hard times. During all of it, no matter our feeling of the moment – love, anger, and frustration – we stayed together and worked things out.
The one thing that got us through everything is that we stayed faithful to our marriage, and equally important, to ourselves.
I looked up faithful in the dictionary.
As an adjective, it means unwavering in belief, consistently loyal, not adulterous or promiscuous, conscientious, and correct.
As a noun, it means somebody or something reliable, religious believers, loyal supporters.
In most aspects of our lives we are challenged to be faithful. Somethings it is easy, sometimes it is extremely difficult.
Often we find that we have to make compromises and in some instances we find that we have to choose between our desire to be faithful to more than one cause or people.
Common examples: Church vs State, Work vs Family, Spouse vs Family.
I think we all need to reflect on just what we are faithful to, and how important maintaining that relationship is in our life.
Can we be all that faithful means and live the life we want?
Its a question each of us can only answer for ourselves.
But, in this election year, I think it is a question the candidates need to answer for us. In the recent past we have seen unfaithful presidents, unfaithful candidates for president, unfaithful governors, and others who assured us that just because they had problems being faithful in their private lives, that it would have no effect on their public lives. They would remain faithful to us the voting public.
Can you trust a person who has been unfaithful and lies and attempts to justify it to be open and honest with you?
How faithful are the candidates running for office?
We need to research as much as we can about their past records, the promises and commitments they made, against the promises and commitments they have failed to keep.
How have they compromised themselves over the years - legitimate compromises with other parties to get things accomplished, or simply compromises to make themselves more appealing to a particular segment of society?
The first person you need to be faithful to is yourself.
Go do the research, ask all the questions and only then will you able to vote for the candidate who will be faithful to those who have placed him/her in office.