https://www.worldhistory.org/Thersites/

Interesting that Homer uses this character to speak the voice of the troops to/against the elites squabbling over prizes. Naturally, being of the elites, both Homer and later Shakespeare present him as a some malformed miscreant.

Looks like not much has changed politically since the 8th-9th century BC. Always the soldiers doing the bidding of the elites for solely the latter's gain.