[betty boop]

My concern (and the reason I dared to contribute) is to suggest a way to "get through" to this spectator society (LOL!)

I think it could work just that way, Alamo-Girl. Most of those spectators wouldn't understand cornelis' (valid!) objection anyway. They just want somebody to "paint them a picture."

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your post! Strangely, a Freeper (The Great Satan) just posted this jewel on another thread:

But, like the man said, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

Talk about timing ... LOL! Anyway, you have my caution about spectators and my suggestion of targeted sound bites. I leave the intellectual heavy lifting to you.

[cornelis]

Most of those spectators wouldn't understand cornelis' (valid!) objection anyway.

You are exercising your cordial virtues in more ways than one and so I should naturally hesitate to defend anything such as myself to note that the failure of discourse cuts right through "us" and "them."