No one ever said the propagandists weren't good at their jobs. They know how to distort and misrepresent the issues to favor the special interests who can pay for their services.
They've managed to convince guys who'll never make much more than minimum wage that taxing the rich at fair rates is a bad idea.
They managed to convice guys who'll die long before their times that universal health care is a bad idea.
They manage to convince guys who'll drift from one dead-end job to another that protecting American jobs is a bad idea.
They call it free-market capitalism, wrap it in the flag and shove it down the dupes' throats and they love it.
Go figure.
Why do you think the rightwing propagandists, who are in a significantly distinct minority among propagandists, are so much more effective in getting people to respond to their message than is your side?
Could it be that you're interpreting the conservative message entirely wrong?
All the major media firms are rightwing. If you need a reason for the effectiveness of rightwing propaganda, focus on that. Virtually everything you hear or see in the broadcast and cable media is skewed to the right.
Sorry, but ALL studies, all scientific polls, and ALL competent analysis of the mainstream American media, even that done by leftwingers, comes to the same conclusion that it is mostly leftwing. The relatively rare by comparison conservative program is vastly outnumbered by the number of sources, amount of print, and number of hours broadcast by the Left.
Until you acknowledge that, you will have no credibility in this line of discussion.
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