My way or the highway ism. This one is tricky. Like trying to train a dog to come to you, by slapping him every time he gets close.
Complete arguments get boiled down to shorts bursts of words, designed to get between the time brackets which the media controls, and then get dismissed outright, their true definition being "translated" by the same media that just loves us.
Also, the "bringing a knife to a gun fight" syndrome when debating, or being presented, with the opposition, at a given public forum or in the media. We look for fighters to back in elections, but get only sheep from which to pick.
We do need more pit bulls no question.Maybe Sarah can start a candidate school.....