Funny, I'd say that describes the other side more accurately - they probably wouldn't put it in those terms, but the PMC bureaucrats who worked for federal agencies absolutely did think they were wiser and better educated and had better judgement and were simply better people than the people their agencies were meant to serve, and treated oversight as damage and routed around it (or, more often, subsumed it into the same complex - not hard when the people doing the regulation are drawn from the same pool as the people running the agencies).

I have a very close friend who works for VA. Her patients are veterans, many far poorer and with no higher-education. She cares about them deeply. She has a husband, kids, and two parents that depend on her paycheck, and her first thought post-election when rumors of furlough and mass layoffs started circulating were about how she can make sure her patients are taken care of if they lose access to her care.

If you think people shouldn't make that kind of generalisation, why didn't you call out the person I replied to? What good does calling me out do that calling them out wouldn't do?

Do you have any evidence for this at all, or are you just projecting your own beliefs?