“HOAs are just one more bit of “government”. People who go about saying there oughta be a law and busybodies about everything....”
Funny thing, HOA groupies are the first to violate the rules.
I’ve thought a lot about the old wisdom that good people don’t need a lot of laws to keep them in line but bad or surly ones do.
The more, “temperamental” shall we say, that people in a society become the more imaginative they are about what other ... temperamental ... people will do to annoy or harm them. It follows then that they will want more government, and layers of government, to protect them from their neighbors.
Ultimately such persons may end up trusting some far off government more that those they stand a chance to know because your representative is this idealized media packaging or some bureaucrat a functionary of some reformed responsible professional public servants (I.e. an abstraction of persons) while Ed on the local School Board, well you’ve known him for years and are under no delusions that his poop doesn’t stink.