I'm gonna ramble a bit while I connect all the dots, so stick with me while we wander a bit - but I promise to being it all together at the end.
Dot #1. It occurs to me that when we post a diary here about most any substantive subject, we are, for the most part, only preaching to the choir. Many great ideas are presented, debated, modified, vetted and finalized in this and several dozen other similar forums.
But who (whom?) besides us political/policy geeks actually see these great ideas/discussions? Do the truly great ideas get distributed widely? It doesn't appear that they get to the `traditional media' very frequently. And since I do not consume any of that form of information distribution, I can't really say for sure. I'll leave that determination to the rest of my gentle readers of this diary.
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