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Ruinenlust wrote:

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... the majority of people simply don't pay attention to politics except for a few weeks before the election every four years, just like how the vast majority of people don't think pay attention to football except around the Super Bowl, or pay attention to Daylight Saving Time except for the few days around when the clocks change. This makes it relatively easy for the hardcore people and their campaign operations to basically be like "Hi, I'm good and I love America, and they're bad and they hate America," and that works on low-information voters because that is a simpler message than "Well actually, it's not that simple and blah blah blah." When you're explaining, you're losing, and since the right wing just asserts and rejects everything else out of hand, it creates a built-in advantage against people who want to draw a complex picture of many colors.