[MichaelZuo]

No it's not reductionist, it's the truth. Reductionist would be different, for example if it implied that change is impossible, or that voters will always stay the same, or that there is a guaranteed inevitability, etc...

Maybe your reading your own thoughts into someone else?

[yieldcrv]

okay, voters don’t have control of their representatives and nobody has floated a constitutional amendment

[MichaelZuo]

If you genuinely believe voters have literally no control over their representatives in the US, I highly doubt you would spend time writing comments on HN about pharmaceutical pricing and not on more important matters.