Because they are successful in turning acts of shallowness and dumbness come across as mockery of the other side and their voters find it all sorts of funny and ingratiating, in short, entertaining.
Recently, I found out that some Fox News hosts tease out the upcoming news describing it using the same phrase or a variation of it over and over again….”The next news is going to make you mad.” “This is going to make your blood boil.”
On a Lyft ride one morning last week, on a Fox News radio station, every other news segment is about some bad news happening in the US but whatever that bad news was, they imply if not directly say it’s the Democrats fault it happened.
It’s so obvious that it’s modern day propaganda.
And obviously the propaganda quite effectively works on voters who are gullible enough and probably hateful enough to get sucked into all that emotional manipulation by a money- grabbing business owned by a greedy ogre named Rupert Murdoch.
Yet it’s all legal in a Democracy isn’t it? Propaganda that may very well lead to its very own demise. The Power truly is in the hands of the People. Sadly that includes the Power to Destroy themselves.