Well from a socio-political standpoint, propaganda just plain works.
When you take a strong mix of continual white-washing of rhetoric and policy across American radio and television, a good forty years of right-wing political maneuvering towards further local focus in messaging and turn-out, as well as a continual lack of ease for most Americans to even spend the time to get politically informed, nevermind exposed to new points of thought; you end up having a vast swath of the population that can’t even afford the time to vote, those that do have a wide margin that either aren’t able to, or are so socially entrenched they dont want to hear about non-republican major talking points, and you end up with the general basis of where we are now.
That doesn’t nearly cover the whole scene, but I’d recommend looking through some of Pew Research publications on elections to get a little better idea of the way turnout ends up.
Well from a socio-political standpoint, propaganda just plain works.
When you take a strong mix of continual white-washing of rhetoric and policy across American radio and television, a good forty years of right-wing political maneuvering towards further local focus in messaging and turn-out, as well as a continual lack of ease for most Americans to even spend the time to get politically informed, nevermind exposed to new points of thought; you end up having a vast swath of the population that can’t even afford the time to vote, those that do have a wide margin that either aren’t able to, or are so socially entrenched they dont want to hear about non-republican major talking points, and you end up with the general basis of where we are now.
That doesn’t nearly cover the whole scene, but I’d recommend looking through some of Pew Research publications on elections to get a little better idea of the way turnout ends up.
Tldr; its complicated as hell lol.