“I don’t say this with any pride,” Darmond explained, “but you need to understand the nature of politics. Politicians are like dogs that chase cars. We have no intention of actually catching what we chase. What would be the point? Once a problem is solved, the public loses interest in it. You get twenty minutes of attention at the celebratory press conference, and then it’s gone. People shift to the next issue. We spend years and countless amounts of money developing perceptions of problems into perceptions of crises. No one wants to start that over and over again.”