Very good point. One of the reasons the Dems were able to run vegetables and dead people and still win was simply that Dems were voting for their party and not the individual candidate. And they voted probably without even knowing their party’s positions, since a number of the Dem candidates refused to debate or even meet with their GOO rivals.
They voted for more free money (suckers!), more authoritarian control over their neighbors, more severe legalized imposition of the leftist view of life (including silencing churches), more government “medical” intervention, and more security from ever having to think or act for themselves. This is what the Dem party represents.
You might say the Dems have brand recognition. Even though a lot of these positions were unstated, people knew from leftist media propaganda that this is what they were getting. Thus it didn’t really matter what the individual candidates said or didn’t say.
GOPers care more about the individual candidate, almost too much so…the campaign can become a squabble over personalities. So even though at some point GOP candidates usually state their positions, the GOP overall doesn’t have the brand recognition and instead ends up looking like rival cultish factions grouped around their particular savior.
This is partly because there is no strong message or push to define one from the RNC, partly because of media manipulation, partly because we’ve gotten used to doing it this way. And I know it will enrage Trump supporters here, but Trump’s behavior and his idea that somehow the election and the GOP were all about him certainly didn’t help this time around.
And then of course there’s the new legalized cheating, which suppresses the GOP vote and inflates the Dem voter numbers.
But the reason there are Dem voters in the first place, even though the actual policies of the party are contrary to their interests, is that they have no idea what the GOP stands for.
They have the well advertised (if fraudulent) Dem brand on one side, and the mystery cans of off-brand GOP with a label they don’t even recognize.
I'll wager if you take aside a Conservative and ask them to explain the Liberal thinking for why abortion is a good thing, and why gun control is a good thing, most Conservatives could explain Liberal thinking on these and other issues. We do understand how they think, we just disagree.
Ask a Liberal to explain Conservative thinking? Well, Conservatives are racist, they want to kill people and they want to oppress women. That's the Republican philosophy in a nutshell ... isn't it?
The media and the schools have made this pretty one-sided. People need to go digging in order to find out the truth, and most people are too lazy.