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Then change the way you tell the story. You know how inconvenient - or dangerous - it is when the power goes out? Or talk about how government impacts your day - that your toaster oven didn't catch on fire and your clothes have care tags, that you have clean water from the tap.

Sometimes “how would this be covered in another country” is a helpful exercise, but perhaps the field of journalism with the most experience generating this kind of content is…sports. I’d be interested to see how good sports journalists would approach covering government like this.

These morons, Trump and Musk, actually think the Gov't should be run like a business. The level of ignorance and stupidity in that belief is off the charts..

People don’t want to move to failed states, no matter how great their malls are. They want to move to a place where they feel they’ll have a fair shake. Where they don’t have to bribe officials. Where the water and air is clean. Where they believe that wrongdoers will face justice.

This is key. Valuing loss avoidance has always been hard, but the info asymmetry is new. The A to first Q is "by sad counter-example," but w/ disinfo, even that no longer works. ("The plane/economy/YOUR job/YOUR kids crashed because DEI/CRT/woke.") Antidote is also in the message: "He lied to you."

I posted about this issue a few weeks ago: Imagine if we thought of taxes as investments in our collective future success, and reported on it accordingly. "10 year investment in schools and hospitals to pays dividends as successful healthy students enter workforce."

They are also allowed to lose, repeatedly, without consequence or condemnation.

Govt wins don’t tend to fit Q1-4 or annual windows in terms of being evident. It’s really testing me trying to figure out where/when a loss would be evident

And of course not just the rate but the *type* and *reason*. A change in the rate of commercial air crashes would be a bigger deal than a change in the rate of GA crashes. A change in how often ATC or other systems are a factor, also interesting (if again hard to do if they stop investigating).

Show charts of all the dangers in the past that decreased. Show the counts of saved lives. Show the charts with unchanged risks plotted and how much damage and life lists that would lead to. How many of their own friends would be lost to disease, everything they'd lose.