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Such is the nature of democracy and all design by committee, accept it, it's better than the alternative: dictatorship.
> than a more pragmatic approach
Forcing more pragmatic approaches would require dictatorship and thus is simply not the correct measure to be looking at.
> If I had the financial independence to run for Congress, I absolutely would..
That wouldn't make any difference, there'd still be a committee and the resulting solutions will never be the more pragmatic ones.
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Such is the nature of democracy and all design by committee, accept it, it's better than the alternative: dictatorship.
> than a more pragmatic approach
Forcing more pragmatic approaches would require dictatorship and thus is simply not the correct measure to be looking at.
> If I had the financial independence to run for Congress, I absolutely would..
That wouldn't make any difference, there'd still be a committee and the resulting solutions will never be the more pragmatic ones.