[Alsos]

When I was a kid, there was an old man on the city council who was the Platonic ideal of the curmudgeon. Voted for whatever the majority opposed, voted against whatever the majority favored, argued for the sake of argument, took the devil's advocate position on every issue, was rude and abrasive to everyone for no reason at all. Once he got so fired up over something that he had a heart attack in the middle of the meeting and had to be taken out by EMTs. Had to watch or attend a number of council meetings for a class - watching him frustrate the hell out of the proto-SJWs running everything was entertainment gold, and I suspect that's why he had been reelected for decades.

Pity he's been dead for a quarter-century. The city could have staged a pay-per-view council-meeting cage match between these two and paid off all its bonds in one go.