I'm going to stay uninvolved, but it will not diminish my bitching at all.
(My wife got on a committee here to design an upgrade for our community deck space. They put in quite a bit of work, and the HOA Board ignored it all, entirely, and did their own thing. I had warned my wife of that possibility. She wasn't overly upset because she had stopped going to their meetings nearer the end. One guy, a "designer", claimed he spent over $500 on his designs that were ignored.)
One of our best senators was appointed by the governor (Sam Nunn).
I can't name a politician today I really respect.