HOw could anyone have anything but a shallow, power-hungry, power-centric view of gov. By definiton that's what it is, and we see it's manifestations daily. The pandemic brought out the worst of it. Our politicians are megalomaniacs. On both sides. It's why they stay until they are 90. Look at the ongoing desire to nationalize industries. The suggested limits on speech via this new goofy agency/board. The free cheese that runs counter to self reliance. Masks. Lockdowns. They are always about a power "elite" controlling what we do and expanding their scope. There will never be a day that an agency will say it's meeting its mission objections and needs less funding. It's going to do reduce staff of its own volitionYour arguments are laughable, Crazy.
On one hand in your first paragraph you baselessly and laughably suggest that I (by that I assume you mean Democrats) can't win arguments on the basis of popular vote and then admit in the second paragraph that Democrats are winning arguments on the basis of popular votes (which you try to smear by calling them "populist votes"). Given your lens on this, I suppose that means you are desperate to preserve minority rule because you are the one who can't win the popular vote.
Maybe if I had a shallow, power-hungry, power-centric view of government like yours, I might attribute my own shortcomings to those I disagree with politically. Thankfully, I don't.