This way to the time machine: Back when one had to fight pterodactyls in the schoolyard at recess, in order to keep hold of one's snacks, there was a terrible candy called Good & Plenty. It was white and day-glow, neon pink, before there was day-glow anything, and only just as neon was itself being tamed to do electrical tricks.
It was terrible junk -- a chalky outer shell with a hard, black licorice center -- but, it was dirt cheap. It was also pay dirt for the non-discriminating 5-year-old on a budget.
Yes, the downside was that it was horrible, but the upside was that there was a lot of it. Somehow, the combination worked. Such is youth.
Now, if you'll step over here, back to the future, and up through the Now Tube into today again, where we left it a sec ago, there's an even better winning situation at hand, and I expect the radical right -- are there any non-radical right-wingers left? -- will be shrieking good 'n' plenty about it.
The big fuss? Gummint daring to intrude again, telling people what they can and cannot do, trying to fix everything, going where they have no business being...
Yes, just imagine the outrage: minimizing the downsides and maximizing the upsides -- how dare they!
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