Most people don’t understand how regulatory agencies actually operate (banditry), but most people do vote. So they have conflicting goals; on the one side, they

Most people don’t understand how regulatory agencies actually operate (banditry), but most people do vote. So they have conflicting goals; on the one side, they need to create a paper record so that judges will approve their future banditry, but on the other side they need to disguise their intentions from the public. This blog post by the FTC is unusually well done and effectively meets both goals, so I disagree with you that the threats shouldn’t be made this way as it is clearly in their own benefit to do so.