These are the classic out of touch elitists. They’re the top hat-wearing first class passengers on the Titanic, heading off to the lounge for a fine cigar and brandy as the ship sinks, tut-tutting along the way at the silly commotion coming from the peasants below. They simply can’t conceive of anything outside their little insulated bubble being important.
Remove your tie, loosen your collar, one at a time please.
Wacko birds? I would say that taking corrupt payments from S&Ls and advocating a war in a country on every continent is the mark of a true wacko bird, even if McCain thought himself entitled to a state funeral that cost us taxpayers a fortune and seemed to last forever.