Politics is, by definition, a conflict resolution process. It is not meant to solve problems. When a political system is faced with a problem, it must quickly reduce all possible solutions to one, to be voted up or down. The solution which creates the least amount of change is the one that gets the most up votes.
Consider how much well meaning legislation is cut back, pared down, eliminating any chance of actually solving a problem in order to get enough votes to "win". We need to move beyond politics to processes that are designed to solve problems.
"The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe."