I finally managed to vote for a 'rat winner in the person of Bill Clinton in 1992. In two years it became crystal clear that Clinton and the entire 'rat party were full of excrement. By 1994, I was voting GOP and subscribing to periodicals like National Review (when it was conservative) and reading books and becoming the political junkie most of us on FR are.
Sure, some lefties are true believing Marxist types. the great majority are probably just stupid. And a 24-hours-a-day media propaganda blitz helps keep them that way.
This.