and people who claim to have certain moral positions on things like health and housing
Think about it in terms of a tribe or community. It is still about supply and demand, isn't it? The problem is, we have created a society where many needs go unmet, while the desires of some are overfilled.
And many people have replaced real tribe/community connections with things like nationalism and partisanship. Instead of seeking consent, they demand power to coerce and control. Compulsion is not cooperation, but political language and the mythology of democracy muddy the waters.