“And of course actors in any country are idiots. Why does it matter what these dim bulbs say?”
It matters because many of these dim bulbs have an audience consisting of even more dim bulbs — who vote.
Most Spaniards - and most Americans - barely vote anymore.
So I think probably the media community can drum up a lot of support for the left, but in the end, it’s still only the hard core that votes, cheats or does whatever it needs to.
The problem is that the right is never as absolute on its program as the left, and therefore will overthink the voting to the point that they either don’t vote or throw away their vote on some obscure party candidate.
In my opinion, one of our biggest problems in the US is that we don’t teach kids from the start to get involved in politics and their future: teachers pitch a leftist line and never let them know their potential power.
Actually, it’s bizarre - I remember that when Ronald Reagan first ran, the Dems were screaming that he was “just an actor!” He was, of course, a two-term governor of California at that point, but it’s interesting to see how the leftist point of view has changed. Actors are their base.