The trouble is that someone glued to a radio or TV is predisposed to blind inflow, and is already demonstrating a willingness to suspend analytical discrimination about what is being said.

For those voters who are not accustomed to parsing bull, or who tend to be easily led, gullible, or semi-hypnotic in their mental state, this sort of emotional rhetoric produces emotional reaction, which is used as a substitute for understanding, and becomes a basis for the KN vote (know-nothing). To justify this suboptimum behavior, they resort to spouting bits and pieces of phrases in any combination they can.



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