Why is that laughable? Must one be anti-intellectual, racist, and repeat whatever pundits say without questioning it to be conservative in your eyes? That is quite dangerous, and one should look at who is empowered by simple followers who lack the effort to gain individual understanding and generate objective conclusions of their own.
Have you ever considered why parties do not want their voters to be well-informed and capable of understanding policies objectively? Because they find it easier to keep it simple and tell you want to think, instead of having you the liberty to think for yourself.
Ever consider where they learned that from? And how effective extreme nationalism can be at misleading a populace to do or think things they wouldn't without proproganda?
Sign people are sheep to what their pundits tell them to think:
"Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (...) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood."
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side. (...) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (...)
Ever consider where they learned that from? And how effective extreme nationalism can be at misleading a populace to do or think things they wouldn't without proproganda?
Sign people are sheep to what their pundits tell them to think:
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