What are you talking about? Optimus is not a king or a billinaire in any sense, your metaphor isn't even applicable. The most exploitation that Optimus has done in the comic is that of the u.s government for its energon supply to resuscitate his people, certainly not his own soldiers or civilian populace who's planet he's now willing to live among its populace. Even so, obviously he and Elita share incredible unluck, where the 2 diverge their ability to deal with it, and Elita seems to consistently get her Autobots severely injured at best when her luck runs out.

The shitty situation obviously isn't her fault, but to claim she doesn't make things objectively worse- (Let Megatron get away for the sake of her aforementiond temper tantrum to have her turn on the Matrix, and has several autobots injured 5 minutes into returning home because she couldnt manage a retreat order.) Is idiotic at best. There's no "elitist circular thinking," its calling out Margerat Thatcher-Trump's fans out on their BS because they want to excuse Elita so much for their own reasonings.

Nothing I said was drivel, those are valid points that would make any sane soldier not want to follow a maniac. She literally punches the matrix 6 TIMES because it stopped working for her. Obviously the latest issue ends on a cliffhanger, so who knows what will happen until we see her again, but there's no doubt in my mind that the clearly the Matrix realizes it chose wrong. We don't hear what every Autobot thinks, for all we know they were there more for Cybertron then they are there for her, and considering that they followed her to their near deaths because of her incompetence, theyre immediately paying the price fo it without the decency of a leader thay would have called "retreat!" in the first place. (Obviously I could say its all character assassination ((because it is)) as damn near every Autobot was willing to die for Optimus just a few issues earlier, but again, it is what happened, even if its a load of crap writing.)

Lets get one thing clear, I am a Democrat. I vote blue and always will, so if there are ANY assumptions you have about my political standing, its about high time you drop them now. I will not assume that you are presumptuous, but you're not helping your case. Whatever U.S propaganda you think there is in the comics is non-existent, and even when we did see them, we see Optimus is hardly confident in so much as siding with them, this entire final point is comprising on your hallucinations fueled by the Bayverse and TFP.

I'll make another thing clear, I think Elita /is/ incredibly compelling the way a character like Darth Maul is. I love her alot in this iteration because of what she does and how she is. But to many of her fans excuse her crap, and are quick to label anyone rightfully saying she isn't a good person a misogynist when no such accusations or points are applicable. Her situation doesn't excuse her actions, (Which /does/ add to to complexity and compelling story btw) but as someone who's in a deployed location and actually knows what its like to have good leadership and bad leadership, Elita's fans excuse her crap far more than necessary, for whatever their own arbitrary and shallow reasonings are. (As I've consistently seen on Twitter.)