Actually I'm far more suspicious of the opposite. Sure it can happen that there is dispassionate lawmaking that benefits most people and harms almost no one. But I'll continue to argue that this is only due to many prior frothing arguments, which distill out the crap, and leave only the salient arguments, and the skilled arguers.

Watch a debate in the British Parliament and then watch a U.S. Senate hearing. It's difficult to take the U.S. Senate or House seriously because there is so little frothing. It's docile, servile, and subservient, and their master is the dollar.

In self-rule, ultimately the buck stops with the citizens. Not only voters, but all of the citizens. The state of affairs is due to the combined effect of action and inaction. The blame ultimately rests with them, same as the buck rests with the shareholders of a company.