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So according to your idea, a politician who would not flag many bad boxes while getting a few common issues nailed down would be a winner? Unfortunately, this

So according to your idea, a politician who would not flag many bad boxes while getting a few common issues nailed down would be a winner? Unfortunately, this is not what we see. We get politics playing to respective power bases and not the actual electorate as an aggregate, and politicians that are a reflection of these power bases and not electorate.

Spivak 8y ago
> not flag many bad boxes while getting a few common issues nailed down would be a winner Easier said than done when you have to take a stance on a bunch of polarizing issues, and any choice you make will be a bad check for half the population. Not messing up the issues people generally agree on is the easy part.