What can you tell me to make it feel better?

[abaris]

Doesn't mean I won't be involved at all but there will be considerably less to do for a while and for that I am grateful.  Politics is not my favorite thing in life and I refuse to let it rob me of those things which do make life rich.  It is important but it is an odious task I take seriously but refuse to dwell on more than I can help it.  Perhaps on that we will just have to disagree.

I didn't mean you. I meant the one making the statement. Calling himself an elitist certainly didn't help. So, probably better if he retires to his ivory tower and spares us from getting a second helping. Alternatively he could join a grassroot movement and actually try to move humanity forward.