> Most voters don't even care about issues, they care about parties, their team. As such, they don't care or want to incentive anything except their own team winning.
Seems like the problem is the voters then.
> If most people want abortion to be legal, the government can simply legalize it.
Per your earlier statement, that is not what most voters want. They want their team to win.
It's not false. You're confusing stated preferences vs. revealed preferences. People might say they want to enshrine their legal right to abortion or that they don't want people to get tax breaks for investing in depressed areas, but they don't do anything that would actually make those preferences a reality (i.e. elect candidates based on those issue who will enact the policies people say they want). So when it comes down to it, people do not actually want those things enough to take the actions necessary to make them happen.
It is false. You're confusing people prioritizing their teams winning over wanting other things.
In an ideal world, they would want both and would get both. However they have to pick. Hence it is not that they don't want it, it is that they want it and cannot get it because they don't want to pay the cost of getting it.
Seems like the problem is the voters then.
> If most people want abortion to be legal, the government can simply legalize it.
Per your earlier statement, that is not what most voters want. They want their team to win.