Liberal Forum

Is part of the problem with elected people losing credibility due to the unelected apparatus working for them?

Example:
A country road commissioner is an elected position. This person has a tactile presence in our lives.
We drive on the results (or lack thereof) shown daily by smooth or bumpy roads, cost overruns, poor timing, etc.

So I hate my road commissioner perhaps unjustly, right? The unionized schlubs doing the work may be the
basic reason things take so long, cost a lot, whatever...

So the road commissioner has to do damage control both figuratively and literally.

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Is this tiny example indicative of the larger problem with an untrustworthy government?
We elect people that take the blame directly for the unelected workers...