Don’t ignore the media. A lot of money also means a lot of media attention which is skewed to the right and the whole social media, advertising industry and getting paid by clicks favors emotional content.

Human nature seems to be a huge part of it. Blaming someone else for all your troubles is such a winning concept, it’s really hard to fight against it. Plus actually having to acknowledge real issues and trying to fix them often comes with people having to change or sacrifice and that’s a hard sell compared to someone just pretending to have perfect solutions and that everything will be fine.

Sadly emotions win debates against facts almost every time.