1. Manufacturers advertise products that we need as well as products we don't need. Pay attention the next time you see an ad for canned vegetables or produce. This is done to convince us to buy a product from one manufacturer instead of from another, even though the products both serve the same purpose. You really should understand that to function in today's society.
Wrong.
When Green Giant advertises its can of beans it's advertising ITS SPECIFIC can of beans. Nobody "needs" Green Giant beans. We do need to EAT. Nobody needs to advertise the idea of "eating". It's biological. What they need to advertise is the idea of buying THAT PRODUCT from THAT COMPANY.. Even while the same company is also selling the same product to the grocery chain so it can slap its own name on it.
What they sell is the IDEA that you "need" to buy Green Giant.
And that you "need" to buy a known brand name. Clearly -- you don't.
But you DO need to eat. Heck, you don't even NEED to vote, yet parties are blatantly trying to convince you that you absolutely not only need to vote, but that you need to vote for their candidate or terrible things will happen to you and the nation.
Nobody "needs" to be convinced to drink water. Again, it's biological. What advertising does is try to convince you that you "need" to buy Evian (naive spelled backward). Clearly --- you don't.
Nor do you NEED to vote for a democrat, yet that's exactly the message that the democrat party sends every election cycle.
Nobody "needed" inverted bathtubs with wheels on them. Nobody "needed" IPhones. Nobody "needed" deodorant. ALL of those artificial "desires" had to be created. That's what advertising does.
And political advertising does the exact same thing. Nobody NEEDS to vote for any particular candidate, but every party advertises to convince you that you do.
And every time Coke advertises the idea that you "need" to drink Coke, it's also advertising Pepsi, by virtue of its propaganda that you "need" to be drinking brown carbonated sugar water. Clearly -- you don't.
Nor do you NEED to vote for a democrat, but democrat advertising can convince that you need to vote for Republicans (if you can stand watching the ads, that is).
2. Political parties also advertise to convince us to vote for their candidate instead of for one from a different party, even though the candidates ultimately serve the same purpose, in this case to hold office. Hillary and her party famously spent untold millions doing just that this last cycle (and lost. LOL). Again, you really should understand that. This is not rocket surgery.
It's also not advertising a product. There's no difference between my buying the Green Giant BRAND and my buying the Bird's Eye BRAND. The only difference is who gets the money.