Nutshell in a nutshell

 > So I hope that in considering a nutshell in a nutshell and thinking  recursion you will
 be able to visualize a Mandelbrot set in your mind especially by linking this idea with
politics.   Now, we refer to politics as a political  system, more often political process,
but also as political mechanism.

So consider the following mechanism:  a flashlight with two batteries.  Now, ideally
you have two batteries to get the optimum light, and you can imagine that we are
talking one republican battery and one democrat battery.  And you want the
optimum light because you want to fix the problems that you have been driven
to unravel with your flashlight.

But guess what --- with one republican battery and one democrat battery you
have only 1/4 of the light output.

And this comes directly from the role played by opposition.  The parties are
in opposition to prevent policies or solutions not in the best interest of everyone.
However, the opposition affect has become so important and so dramatic that
the ability to co-operate has become diminished so much, that the output is
only a fraction of the benefit you would like to have in order to achieve collective
goals which revolve around solutions to " real world ", really, really existent
problems and issues.

Which leads in nicely to a plug for Hank, the helpful hardware man.