simple farmer

 when like a parasite your entire existence is based on having unlimited access to the treasury and resources of a nation, electoral defeat is a form of death. sometimes the host expels the parasite

 noun
1. an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
2.a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.