then isn't it wonderful that at least some elites are prepared to focus on the common good rather than their own benefit, which increasingly is different from yours.

Name me one politician that is focused on the common good - and don't say Obama because nothing could be further from the truth. What makes you think that I am not focused on the common good? I believe that self-reliance and freedom are best for the people. The nanny state, making people dependent on the government from womb to tomb is not in their best interest.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but feed us."

-- The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(The Brothers Karamazov, Chapter 5)