> given a choice between "abortion is illegal" or "poors don't starve to death" What are you talking about? No voter is faced with that choice. > those kinds

> given a choice between "abortion is illegal" or "poors don't starve to death" What are you talking about? No voter is faced with that choice. > those kinds of hardliners do want all the bad things to happen Who are these "hardliners" you speak of? > People given a choice between "close the military base and lose your jobs" and "keep your jobs, but we drop more bombs on brown people" No voter is faced with that choice either. Closing the military base in a particular district doesn't mean the military downsizes. It just means the base gets built in some other district whose representatives were better at getting pork for their constituents. None of these things have anything to do with the basic problem I described.