Acute current events affect people differently. If a plane full of Americans falls out of the sky and kills everyone on board, and it turns out to be because o

Acute current events affect people differently. If a plane full of Americans falls out of the sky and kills everyone on board, and it turns out to be because of negligence at Boeing, and it happens close to an election, that will definitely be used against any incumbent politician who could be portrayed as responsible. Politicians want to avoid a scenario like that. But it does require several things to line up for that scenario to unfold, so they have no incentive to care beyond what is necessary to prevent it.