What are the challenges of social policy?

What if the society does not LIKE the policy?

Social policy covers a lot of ground, from veteran's benefits, welfare, public health, education and homelessness. Teaching sex education to middle school students is a mater of social policy. Whether or not convicted criminals should receive the death penalty is a social question.
In the USA social policy is hotly contested between religious fanatics (the Evangelicals, to be specific) and their economic conservative allies (who don't want to pay for anything), and the liberals who oppose them. This battle - er, war, has been going on for three generations now.

capitalists they serve the few not the many