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Politicians spending time advocating for, writing legislation, promoting, debating, and bragging about such things is all an enormous distraction which fools people into thinking something is being done and satisfies people would would have been disadvantaged. If politicians literally did nothing all day people would be upset and force action.
Instead politicians do the absolute minimum to seem like they are doing something when they are not.
The reason abortion, alternative identity/sexuality, the NEA, gun restrictions, extreme social benefit changes, etc dominate political attention is precisely because nothing of consequence will ever actually happen while people cheer for their cause and their team.
Kicking stones when mountains need to be moved isn't progress and should be reviled instead of celebrated.
All of that energy and time could have been used to educate people about reducing their consumption of materials, energy, and space. But maybe that’s not what people want anyway.