This also applies to all decision making by all elected political leaders, and is a big part of why we usually can’t seem to act on an issue until it becomes a crisis, often more than once. Most people don’t have the knowledge, interest, habits, or willingness to grapple with hypothetical harms deeply enough to properly evaluate them, so leaders who try to do so get punished for wasting resources on things that get deemed not real, or else punished for choosing an ineffective strategy if the harms happen anyway.
This also applies to all decision making by all elected political leaders, and is a big part of why we usually can’t seem to act on an issue until it becomes a crisis, often more than once. Most people don’t have the knowledge, interest, habits, or willingness to grapple with hypothetical harms deeply enough to properly evaluate them, so leaders who try to do so get punished for wasting resources on things that get deemed not real, or else punished for choosing an ineffective strategy if the harms happen anyway.