Rasing the discourse and being concerned about the appearance of FR to liblurkers goes beyond selective civility.
You'll have to pardon some of us if your new-found and loudly proclaimed commitment to civility hasn't yet convinced us of your sincerity. Especially since you've done little else BUT proclaim it.
It's obvious that you're spoiling for a fight which tells me that you're not really interested in raising the discourse and you're not really concerned about the appearance of FR. Oh well. You'll just have to shadow box because I'm not interested.
Go in a good way.
And yet you keep responding. Admit it, this forced simulacrum of civility is just eating you alive, isn't it?
Maybe if you were to say something other than loudly announce your new-found allegiance to courtesy, we might find something to engage on. Perhaps you have some opinion on Lincoln's economic philosophy that you'd like to state in a constructive, respectful way.