@futurebird I agree, but I also wonder whether this actually works?
Sadly, I don't recally any time where someone said "here is the BIGNEWCRIMETHING and we need to do things about it", only to be laughed out of the election cycle because the BIGNEWCRIMETHING wasn't a thing after all.
Is that because laughing them out doesn't work, or is it because laughing them out sadly simply doesn't happen enough?