when you buy a car that is the exact process you go through...it's they way people have made successful and fair transactions since man first sold a goat.
Ah, but which brand of car? Should it be a truck? Should it be a diesel? Should it be electric? If you think the legislative process is like buying a goat, you miss the point entirely? It is the choice of many options with people pouring billions into their brand, hoping that you select their car, but all the while trying to eliminate any choice at all. Ivory towers are a lonely place to be wrong. Sound policy is choosing a Ford, unless you are the Chevy dealer, and sound policy becomes choosing a Chevy. To deny the role of special interests and money in politics as if this utopia exists where sound policy will bring consensus, is really some whacked Ivory tower chit.