“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.”

-T. J.

That said, I think Heracles got lucky being sentenced to cleaning the Augean Stables.

Informing normies is much, much ickier, and we don't have demigod powers...