Atheism & the Death Penalty.

[Ravenshire]

Are you not interested in making this one better than it is?

You say that like thats actually the choice. 
Like public opinion actually dictates policy decisions as opposed to the desired policy decisions influencing public opinion through a combination of misdirection, NLP and charisma.
Theres two things you need to remember about the democracy train; its tracks go along the most profitable path. Always. If there isn't some kind of angle to make profit then it doesn't make the list of stops.
The second thing? Nothing changes its course. Ever. You can be on the front of the train or on the back and the level of service you get will scale... but you don't change its destination. You help it along, get run over by it or just sit down and shut up.
Theres no drivers on this train, its automated. Just passengers with varying degrees of usefulness.

You have a truly dark world view.