Dan Drezner is upset that he cannot find a single Republican congressman who wants what he wants. Would it matter if he did? After all, whatever your theory of how policy gets made (median voter, Leviathan, etc.), the role of a single politician is of no importance, unless he or she is the decisive voter.

The real problem is not that there are no politicians who believe what Drezner believes, or what I believe, or what you believe. The real problem is that we permit politicians to make collective decisions in areas where individual decisions would be superior.

The real shame is not that government is filled with people we disagree with. It is that so many people are more concerned with who is in power, rather than what power they have.