Absolutely fair points, and I've been thinking along the same line as well. I guess it's a testament to how far gone we are as a free republic that I immediately dismiss such a possibility as pure fantasy.
One of our biggest problems is that non-committal "nuance" has become associated with cleverness and reasonableness. It's resulted in the proliferation of wordy nonsense and lawyerese in everything. In the public sphere, nobody will just say what they think or mean, for fear of being called this or that. I associate this with the overall emasculation of the culture.