Yup.
And the sad thing is, that’s kind of why we have governments in the first place. If all we were going to do was pander to popular demand, without any intelligent debate and social-level action plan, then we could just vote on everything and do away with the bureaucrats. But we bring them in specifically for this purpose, to make difficult and sometimes unpopular decision that benefit society as a whole. It’s enough to make me shake my fist.