@Anon
To quote you from this morning:
“it’s called sarcasm.”
If you (or anyone else) don’t like your elected officials, get involved in politics. Join your Town Party Committee, attend Board and Commission meetings, run for elected office. Become a delegate top state and/or national conventions and have a vote on the platform.
You may win or lose, but this is the only way to effect change when you are not happy with the local politics.
Democracy (even a republican model) is a participatory form of government.
I have done all of the above for more than 45 years.
I am far from elitist, my social circles cross economic and ethnic divides.
I have had townspeople call me elitist because my children attended ‘private schools’. I dare say most CR readers/posters who raised children in the USA also did not send them to public schools., but that does not make us elitist.
Mrs. CTL and I worked hard for what we have amassed, it was not inherited. The compound grew with the sweat of our brows. Don’t ask how many nails I hammered, how many sheets of dry wall we both hung, etc.
That said I’d gladly pay higher taxes to provide for the greater good in our society. America welcomed my forebears when they escaped the anti-semitism in mid 19th century Germany and Russia, and I believe in giving back and extending opportunities to newcomers.