Financial Collapse for Dummies

Regis,

Nothing is complicated to the brilliant mind!

Your assessment is concise, on point and insightful. Nonetheless, it is simple only to those who possess adequete critical reasoning skills and sufficient gounding in logic to follow the string.

Alas, the vast majority of voters do not fall into that group.

To quote M.L. Mencken, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

As grandmother, who escaped the spread of Communism in Eastern Europe before WWI, used to say: "Ignorance is bliss!" She was referring to lemmings who follow on the basis of emotion rather than logic.

Knowing the facts of a matter is but a part of the battle. Educating others is the truly difficult part, most especially when speaking to a closed mind.

Good up the good work on the difficult part.