What’s this “whole elephant” stuff? I almost always only post excerpts and links. Like it or not, this is a complex subject (communists trying to hijack our system). We are all adults here. Spoon-feeding is for infants and toddlers.
See post #38, #88, #91, #107 and #119.
What sells the Corvette? Two or three simple points, or pages of technical minutia?
Presentation is important.
Which does a restaurant serve:
Drinks, appetizers, soup, salad, a main course, side orders, desert and then coffee or drinks.
or a vat with all of the above mashed together?
Which would you buy:
A scorched chunk of dead flesh oozing fluids and covered in fungus
or
A juicy steak done just the way you like it smothered in mushrooms?
Break it down into easily enjoyed and absorbed bits, sell the sizzle, not the steak.
Yes, we're all adults here, yes we vote, and yes most of the people not on FR who do vote need some spoon feeding.
God knows they get the liberal side in sound bites. Face it, sound bites work on most voters.
Using tools that are proven to work for each job is smarter than trying to get that nifty left-handed reverse snamelfrachtet adjustment pin wrench to do all jobs.