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I'm interested in power. A and B describe outcomes.
It makes a difference whether the person who leads the meeting changes the schedule when objections happen because he's nice or because he if forced to change.
When it comes to Obamacare I don't think the issue is that 42% of the US population don't care about it. From my perception of US politics a lot of people in the US care a great deal about the issue.
It's a problem when you can better convince the voting public by buying TV ads then you can convince them through good policy.
Could be that your perception is not of the same group of people as don't know it is law when polled.
72% of American seem to believe that it's unconstitutional so they care to some extend about it.
Yes, I would agree that regardless of what label we assign to the U.S. political system, power is not equally distributed within it, and the people "leading the meeting" are not reliably (or typically) "nice," and policy selected for some goal other than being convincing typically isn't as convincing as well-designed propaganda.