i appreciate that. it's a problem everywhere; facts and policy specifics don't hold interest most of the time, even when they should typically be exciting. headlines and easy talking points make for easier to retain and repeat memes and when someone asks you to think beyond that, to get to the specifics of the issue, there's less engagement. it's like how both left and right dropped the ball with the "kids in cages" memes. all the left had to do was be specific about zero tolerance, indefinite child separation for the purpose of making families self deport out of stress and fear, and stay on that same page. by just repeating "kids in cages", they handed the right the "obama built those cages" talking point because it's true, he just used those cages for a temporary hold as families with checked for human trafficking, and then were reunited. so the meme was catchy and made sense in a liberal echo chamber, but that didn't safe guard it from an easy and catchy counter because the issue was larger than how they reduced it.
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