You've identified some interesting examples of extreme ideological thinking here. However, it seems to me that your reasoning may simply be a form of mental gymnastics which allows you to justify your support for Hillary Clinton and other neo-liberal candidates who have absolutely no principles whatsoever - guided by corporatism. Over and over they pound away at how complex the process of lawmaking is, chipping away at freedoms in exchange for safety, ceding ground to corporatism, to the point where they will tell you with a straight face that the laws that I personally grew up with are not realistic - they are unattainable, and to propose otherwise makes me a simpleton who does not grasp the "complexity" of the issues. Far too often the phrase "real world" is the platitude of the sell-out. It's a catch phrase they use to gaslight people. We're too simplistic to realize why we must have a corporate hybrid form of insurance instead of the single payer system that most of the rest of the civilized world already has. Oh yeah, and we're also too simplistic to understand why at the same time we need to be bombing seven different countries all without the consent of Congress. No Dave, sometimes principles actually matter and you need to stick to them. Of course there are matters of policy which require some judgment and walking the line between them, but more often than not politicians exploit those "conflicts of principle" in order to get away with doing things for the interest of their donors instead of acting on behalf of their constituents.