Good post, and I strongly concur.
We used to have a representative government that reflected the dreams and aspirations of a people and not the ideology of a leftist few.
We could dream of going to the moon as we dreamed of such when I was a youngster. We dreamed and we did it as a people.
Now we dream of taxation and government controls and managed outcomes that keep the cost of keeping us alive minimized.
I liked the former way a lot more than I like what passes for government now.