The tree is up and decorated pretty, but it’s not quite right. Cookies and candies are baked and delicious, but they’re not quite right. Christmas music is playing, and Christmas programs are airing, and the mall is full of Christmas shoppers buying Christmas presents and waiting in line to have their Christmas children photographed with Santa Claus. It’s just as festive and illuminated as it ever was. And it’s not quite right.

We simply do not treat DUI as the crime it is — either in our minds or within the law. We can’t flip a switch and change the wiring in everyone’s brain, but we can change the law.