Because the US does not have referendum. Some states do, but there is no national referendum in the US. If there were the country would likely be quite different. There are issues that “both sides” agree with that neither side push for because it’s not profitable. If we had a referendum we might be able get certain things passed.

Of course, you’d have to depend on those in power to do the referendum to give us a chance to vote on it anyway…

It’s almost as if representative democracy isn’t actually all that democratic most of the time