But your story just continues to show that nobody with such strong opinions seem to care until it directly effects them.

Yeah. I’ve been considering that it’s a bit like the difference between empirical and theoretical physicist.

The theoretical physicist uses models of how the world works to make predictions about the outcome of experiments. The empirical physicist has to do experiments to believe it. It’s kinda the same for people in politics.

Some people can predict what outcome certain policies are going to have. Others have to figure it out experimentally.