If this gets any traction we will at least benefit in 100% knowing our (American) government is a joke. The FBI has a "going dark" problem? Really!? How is that possible exactly? Criminals aren't using Facebook and Skype to discuss their activities. Even if they were, I'm sure Facebook and Skype have some automated flagging system for keywords that come up in any communication channel they operate. Nonetheless, aside from cyber criminals, "hackers", traditional criminal behavior is executed in real life. The same reality that the FBI has sufficient surveillance on 24/7.
We might understand the joke, but we're only an insignificant part of the voting population. The vast majority of American voters don't understand that their ability to sleep at night free of terror comes at the chipping away of their freedoms elsewhere. They don't make the connection between feeling up someone else's kids in an airport and the loss of freedoms in general.
The things we talk about (encryption, backdoors, etc.) seem trivial to us because we're buried in it every day or at least have some context to place it in. But Joe the Plumber or Betty the Housewife doesn't. They don't even really have a place to start to get simple, concise information on how to start understanding it in a way that fits in with their daily lives.
It's not that they can't learn - they don't have the resources or the time.
