“..despite the foolishness of our so-called elected officials. They don’t matter, your people do.”
That’s true to a certain extent, but we must not forget that our current trajectory is dooming our progeny to live under utterly suffocating Soviet-style tyranny. So, unfortunately, our “elected” officials matter. A lot.
I visited the former Soviet Union in 1998. Even there, what I wrote still stands. They loved one another, sometimes dearly.