Well, they kind-of are, they are subject to the discipline of the market for votes. But the problem is when most voters don't care about a particular issue, an

Well, they kind-of are, they are subject to the discipline of the market for votes. But the problem is when most voters don't care about a particular issue, and a small minority (in this instance hoteliers) do. I would introduce reforms to partially overcome these problems: 1. politicians can only make something illegal with a super-majority (say 55 or 60%). This means there is an automatic bias towards liberty. 2. recall elections for politicians at all levels 3. ban businesses from donating money to politicians. It just creates too many opportunities for corruption. 4. all legislative assemblies to be elected by proportional representation. This would mean genuine voter choice rather than 2 monolithic big parties. 5. all assemblies at lower than the country level (which in the US, means state governments and below) are allowed to legalise any activity made illegal by a higher government on a straight 50% of the vote. As with (1) this is also a bias towards liberty. 6. any law passed by any assembly must be subject to a referendum if enough people want it.