Thank you. It is interesting to read a detailed description of the lay of the land.

I sense some previous interplay between you and the two answering posts (neither of which seemed to add much of anything to the conversation, IMHO).

Nope. No past interplay. It was just a bizarre post so I called it out as such.

Bizzare or interesting... I guess it depends a great deal on the beholder. Mixed in with what I thought was illuminating information based on experience was a terrible angst about anybody turning it political. I have my own long held political beliefs, but I do agree that Red/Blue has not been a helpful dichotomy in defeating this plague.