This REALLY bothers me too!
Not just because of they hypocracy, but NONE of our ‘elected’ officials should be living anywhere NEAR royalty!
THIS is the very stuff that put state heads of old on the guillotine. obama is just as bad -living like a rock star on OUR dime.
The founders intended these elected positions to be TEMPORARY SERVICE positions. - To take them AWAY from their own business at a personal loss for a time, in order to SERVE the PUBLIC.
“The founders intended these elected positions to be TEMPORARY SERVICE positions. - To take them AWAY from their own business at a personal loss for a time, in order to SERVE the PUBLIC.”
I could not agree more. The political class, and the MSM who cover them have turned politics into a form of celebrity. It’s ridiculous and needs to stop. This is why I am in no way exaggerating when I say that it should be a law that all politicians, including the President, be addressed by the public by their first name. Conversely, the same law should require the politicians/elected public servants to address each and every one of their constituents as ‘sir’ and ‘madam’.
Most of us have no interest in running for public office because we have more productive things to do, we have normal sized egos, and we aren’t interested in spending time schmoozing. Those of us who do have such interests deserve no special treatment.
If you take away the celebrity aspect from politics you will have much better elected officials (i.e. those who actually deserve respect because they are their to serve), and you will also do away with the celebrity factor in the news media.