Thank you for your replies.
[Warning: musings ahead.]
Re your reply on 2, I found it interesting that overall you seem focused on working with *insiders8 --- people already quite involved and invested in the political system—rather than aiming for uptake in the population at large, and then to use that as leverage on politicians (which is what I had been musing about when thinking about how to cause political change). I wonder whether there’s data on the effectiveness on the two different approaches. Most likely it’s too dependent on context and question.
Yes, the old adage: “I don’t have time to write short texts.”