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To: poconopundit

“... not in plain English...”

Damn.

How far we have fallen.

But I see your point — George Washington was communicating well with higher people, when voters were intelligent and educated. You seek a “communicator” who can speak in short sentences and with a small vocabulary to the complete idiots who vote today. I hope you can find someone to explain complex ideas to the simple brains of the low people.


42 posted on 11/10/2021 12:05:57 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

It’s not just the less educated who are looking for easier to grasp writing.

If you posted Washington’s Farewell speech here on Free Republic, I wonder how many people would read it in its entirety.

Social media point us to countless stories to read and YouTubes/Rumbles to watch. They all compete for our attention.

Now one contemporary of Washington was Thomas Paine. I think his writing style and way of explaining ideas would appeal to people today.

Thomas Paine, COMMON SENSE — January 1776
https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Common-Sense-_-Full-Text.pdf

Cheers...


44 posted on 11/10/2021 1:26:09 PM PST by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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