I'm baffled by you asking this question, and I'm wondering who you represent as you ask it - the website, or yourself, whomever that might be? The question is

I'm baffled by you asking this question, and I'm wondering who you represent as you ask it - the website, or yourself, whomever that might be? The question is so broad that it's almost impossible to answer without dozens of caveats and presuppositions. I think the quickest answer I can give is "yes, because the further removed government officials are from their constituents, the more abstract the constituents become." Another quick one is probably "yes, because the there's no path to an alternative that doesn't begin with a lot of death and destruction." Those are just the two immediate and quick ones that pop into mind, and remember what I said initially about the caveats and presuppositions - I didn't list any of them for my two scenarios, because most of them are self-evident to any reader.