The simple answer is people want simple answers. Propaganda, especially that of the right gives them. Sure the answers are wrong, but they are easy to digest in the moment.
People want answers, not necessarily simple ones (any answer can be sufficiently simplified), but answers. I mean, it’s not like “the rich are robbing you blind” is much more complicated than “immigrants and the gays are ruining this country;” it’s a question of which message is being amplified and being turned into real action.
The simple answer is people want simple answers. Propaganda, especially that of the right gives them. Sure the answers are wrong, but they are easy to digest in the moment.
People want answers, not necessarily simple ones (any answer can be sufficiently simplified), but answers. I mean, it’s not like “the rich are robbing you blind” is much more complicated than “immigrants and the gays are ruining this country;” it’s a question of which message is being amplified and being turned into real action.