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"Look, American Politics is/should be about finding the middle ground that suits the population as a whole."

No! No! No! The Constitution was written in large measure to protect the unpopular and the disadvantaged citizen against the tyranny of the majority! If the "populaton as a whole" decided that infant girls should be killed at birth, or people over the age of seventy would have to be euthanized because the country is getting too crowded, would that be okay with you? What if "the population as a whole" decided to resurrect slavery? That's okay with you, as well? I don't think so. But if it is, then you belong in a different century or a different country.