To be fair, most of the loud political objections they deal with can be considered "needlessly idealized or dogmatic." That's largely the norm, and it's become

To be fair, most of the loud political objections they deal with can be considered "needlessly idealized or dogmatic." That's largely the norm, and it's become even more so as the louder minorities within each party have been able to leverage new tech to increase their respective voices. This applies to almost every issue that they have to deal with, and every advocacy group argues that their issue is special and unique. So it is any surprise that a lot of our legislators (at least those who aren't leading the charge here) are grouping arguments against backdoors into the same category based on their past experiences? They don't have the background or theoretical grounding to realize that, this time, the realities of mathematics really do make this issue unique. It's a mess, with no clear path in sight. In addition to lobbying and supporting new candidates, any united effort to defend against these intrusions is going to have to include a massive education program meant to inform legislators on the dangers of what they're proposing. And it'll have to be tailored to how legislators actually think about policy. The arguments that work amongst the tech world aren't going to work in Congress. Not because they're idiots or anything like that, but because radically different backgrounds and experiences can affect how information is processed.