Very good point. The common denominator is “magical thinking” - and I see a lot of that around me these days. And not just as applied to politics. A lot of these alternative health freaks rely a lot on magical thinking. They are always on about channeling this sort of energy or that sort of energy, or getting rid of toxins or bad humors etc. It’s the same, almost proud ignorance of how things fundamentally work.
Ayn Rand wrote about the exact thing you described, except instead of “magical thinking” she used the ubiquitous “somehow”.
You know, pass this plan so we can make health insurance cheaper.
But all it does is add several million people to the demand side, give a bunch of handouts, and severely restrict, tax, and fee the supply side. How in the world will that reduce costs?
Somehow. (Now shut up and agree with us or you aren’t being bipartisan.)