And here's the problem, I guess: Civil servants, bureaucrats, cops, they have rules to follow & enforce. A lot of that works. The supposed top-level rulemakers are the wrong people, because fat cats pay to put the wrong kind of person in--but maybe also because it's the wrong system.
The GOP was built, originally, for fat cats to reshape the country. (But they needed progressive weirdos to get a coalition.) I suppose the Constitutional Convention was somewhat the same. 😕 I don't know.
I do know that we need politicians who *can* think, & I do try to think, even if I don't think well. I feel like I'm much more temperamentally suited to acting like a menace. But a terrifying angel of death is not a solution in itself. Hurm.