> People in government having a job doing something you think isn't useful isn't corruption, though

I didn't say anything about that; I don't think I know enough yet to have a fully formed opinion.

But I do think that the overly powerful DC bureaucracy, DC NGOs, and corruption that holds it together is a worthy common enemy for all of us - that's what I'm trying to point out.

I'm actually amazed at Democrats' position on this. I grew up in a Democratic family... We used to be the anti-establishment party! JFK was a Democrat - and he's the one who was apparently taken out by the CIA because he said he was going to destroy it. It used to be Republicans who wanted to keep the institutional status quo in DC.

Either way, I think a pro-Democracy attitude will oppose growing power of unelected officials, regardless of political leanings.