The left is actually doing pretty well, considering.
It's easy to get mad at the people who vote for evil. I'm mad. I hate my fellow white people including former friends and my mom. Think about that. I hate my mom. [1]
But do we get mad at people who eat at McDonald's or only buy Crest or Colgate or shop at Home Depot or who own iPhones? Advertising works. The effects of advertising are well known or else ads wouldn't exist. And Democrats raise gobs of money and put on advertisements before elections. But if a better-for-you cola runs 6 weeks of ads I don't think it's going to outsell Coke. The Democrats can't compete against a lifetime of brainwashing. All through the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and today, the Democratic Party has been dehumanized by a nonstop media onslaught from the right. Lefties like me laugh because the attacks are juvenile. And so are most commercials.
Ok but Black Americans exist in the same media landscape & they might buy Colgate but they're not voting for Republicans! They are reliable Democratic voters. Ok. I'm just an artist, a white man; I'm not able to speak for Black Americans. But I know this: Black people know their existence is under threat & has never stopped being under threat. I also believe that Black Americans have a stronger network of community & family. (Above I talked about my division with my own mother. More below [2].) I doubt Black Americans vote for Democrats because of advertisements or even for
[1] Well that's complicated. She never accepted me as a gay person & she's always lived in delusions & now she has dementia. I feel gravely wounded by her & I don't like her & I don't understand her. I feel for her similarly to how I feel for America. Sometimes the word hate feels best suited for this relationship. It sure isn't cold indifference. [2] My mother is the white conservative I know best so I wonder if they're all like her: Living in delusions. Impervious to reason, to pleading, to arguments from loved ones. Mainlining Fox & other conservative media as their lifeblood. Zombies. Yes she was on automatic pilot for years before the dementia diagnosis... I wonder if there is a higher % of dementia among the white population.