Reply #123: Maybe, then we should ditch democracy...

[Festivito]

...if the general public lacks basic comprehension. But, I don't think so.

I think they lack information, clear concise information. Not information that could be satirical upon itself with endless caveats, and comma spliced sentences, with or without ostentatiously stimulating vocabulary, ending some properly stated intention only after too much intervening verbiage. Intellectual my... never-you-mind.

Twenty-five words or less. Fewer if we want to win.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it think. With information, the sight of water, he thinks or he dies. Give water.