"I realize no-one will read this"
That's a sad Realization.
What’s sadder is spending time composing this knowing no-one will read it.
My premise is quite simple. When I was in grade school we had a subject call “Civics”.
“Civics” taught us our elected officials were elected primarily from one of two political parties. However as soon as the election process ended these same official represented all their constitutes, not only ones of a specific party affiliation or religion. Moreover then never represented corporation over the welfare of the country.