>Winning elections is about convincing people, not brainwashing them. Are you suggesting that political advertisements don't use the same sorts of psychologica

>Winning elections is about convincing people, not brainwashing them. Are you suggesting that political advertisements don't use the same sorts of psychological manipulation as non-political advertisements? Or you do consider psychological manipulation to just be a form of "convincing"? >Your perspective is that voters are dumb animals who flock to whoever spends the most on ads. Voters are human beings, most of which are highly susceptible to being manipulated through an array of time-tested psychological tricks that advertisers have been using for over 100 years.