And if I still lived in Seattle a politician could tell me "we will painlessly terminate the lives of the homeless and convert power plants to use their bodies for fuel as a Green alternative to coal or natural gas" and I'd vote for them as long as the homeless problem went away.

There's a point where things get so bad you just want a problem solved and don't care too much for how it's solved. Yours is a "peacetime" approach to politics, and I'm not sure we're still in "peacetime" on some of these issues.