This, if anything, is a good lesson on why politicians and PR firms tend to speak the way they do. Unfortunately, the baseline for your understanding requires

This, if anything, is a good lesson on why politicians and PR firms tend to speak the way they do. Unfortunately, the baseline for your understanding requires a reasonable amount of intelligence, a reasonable amount of empathy, and a reasonable amount of ability to frame situations in context. The reality is that, surprisingly enough to people like yourself, the majority of the population does not actually have all three of those abilities. It was something that was unbelievable to me until I was close to something that dealt with public opinion. You are absolutely correct on your take of the situation. The reality, unfortunately, is that the majority of the population is not capable (not their fault) of understanding the situation at that level. This is why messaging out of corporations and politicians tends to be so odd. The majority of people are simply not capable of understanding things at your level. Edit: I would strongly encourage people here to look up the median reading level in the United States. Then find an example text above that reading level(it's around 9th grade) and realize that half of the United States is below that level