"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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The differences you imply to be insignificant are quite what
differentiates the ignorant from the educated.

They do not, however, help a person to make an intelligent decision. Not
about politics, nor anything else. Nor are today's "common folk" any better
at doing that sort of thing than the "common folk" of 200+ years ago, IMHO.

It is in that respect that those differences are insignificant...for you to
infer that I meant anything else makes no sense.