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>Parties could in theory try to skew people
They do. They push people to vote without thinking. Sometimes through sheer propaganda campaigns against their enemy candidate. Sometimes the political parties televise it and accuse their candidate without much of an argument. The ideal is to gather all the votes to gain power and get as many tickets into the ballet box.
>changing people's minds is very hard
Yeah, and it frankly doesn't matter what anyone really thinks. It's just a charade.
>Accusing the other party of being irresponsible, unconcerned with debt they're leaving to grandkids, etc.
Nah, that's just another tactic and long-term strategy. Often the parties who do that go on to make their own debts anyways once they seize power.
>voters exist in families
Listen, I'm not denying this. But a democracy isn't structurally incorporating this. A democracy doesn't always appeal to this. There is a foresight between generations, but also resentment between generations through the voting block. Against old generations. Against boomers. Against millennial generations. Against two spheres of the household thanks to men vs woman politics considering what tension exists with feminism. Yes, this system has whacked apart this structure through the conceit of either member to have power. And then you have other politicized events that foster rebellion among members of the public to support weird causes…