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ah. The data shows we should have won. The data was wrong.

1. Fear. Baked into the amygdala. Fear of "the other". Trump's commercials invoked the Jungian collective subconscious. Most effective ad: girls' sports.

2, Salesmanship. Psyops can make an Alaskan buy snow water. 90% voted contrary to their own economic and physical health. Why would someone on SSI (or any government benefit) vote to cut it.? Hispanics and Moslems supported a guy who will deport them -- even if they are citizens. During his administration he was working on "denaturalization."

3 Maybe the proletariat are really "lumpen."

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this… PROPAGANDA WORKS. the simple answer is that Dems won’t use effective propaganda tools. All the analysts give way to much credit to the voters-

the fact is that the masses are stupid and lazy - they don’t know or understand “policy” or how government works. They listen to TV ads and social media propaganda (if anything at all) and what their friends say and vote based on their emotional ‘feelings’ about a candidate or just plain misinformation. They have zero clue how the decisions that affect their daily lives get made. They ‘don’t pay attention to politics’ - Americans have dug our own grave by failing to educate people about civics and perpetuating ‘news’ and information sources that are primarily, if not solely, profit driven. Until we fundamentally change the system, propaganda is the only thing that will work.

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