Both sides vastly underestimate the number of eligible voters that care like they do, at least enough to vote about it one way or the other. The eligible voters that choose not to vote have outnumbered the turnout of either political party for 100+ years. The true horror of the situation is that supposedly the dumbest 10% of eligible voters that somehow manage to vote actually decide all presidential elections, the swing voters.
If that’s true, elections aren’t contests between opposing political philosophies, but contests determined by whomever is able to sway the swayable voters who have no guiding political philosophy. The result could be good or bad, con or lib, but invariably it wasn’t determined by informed voters voting based on a considered political philosophy. It was supposedly determined by the swayable voters voting on non-rational reasons like who the media said won a debate or if the candidate looks like them or whatever.
Freegards
That makes sense.
I think the biggest perverter of election results is the myth that Democrat politicians are the compassionate ones and protectors of the little guy, whereas Republican politicians are protectors of the selfish and the rich.
There is no truth to it but they have managed to brainwash the masses.
Until that myth is exploded, the Democrats will get far more support than they deserve, and Republicans far less.
If the truth was known about the devastating impact that oversized government and wealth redistribution programs pushed by Democrats have had on the lower and middle classes, the Democrats would never get another vote.