OK, if you really do all of that, it puts you in the 1%, maybe even the 0.1%
of voters who actually understand the issues, that is.
Meanwhile, the vast majority swallow the ads whole, which is why money is what it takes to get elected.
Money is what buys elections, not facts, not issues, not ideology (at least, not mostly), but money.
Which is why people with real money have real power.
I'm not talking about the guy who had a successful career or business and is now worth a few measly million and lives comfortably. I'm talking about the people with real wealth, the kind measured in the billions, the kind that comes from and then produces power.
And, power concentrated in only a few people is dangerous. It feeds on itself and grows even bigger and more powerful. That's true whether the power comes from government or from great wealth, or as is generally the case, from both.