How have left-leaning people in the media (or corporations, neither left or right, for that matter) not figured out how to harness the ease at which conservatives will turn on a product or technology based on who the messenger was? Seems so easy to intentionally manipulate.

Like the gas stove shit (in the US). How simple was it for Fox News, etc., to get millions of people who had no opinion on gas stoves whatsoever minutes earlier, to suddenly be willing to die to preserve their right to own gas stoves against some faceless enemy who is, in their addled minds, coming to their home to forcibly take their stoves away? To have them turn an apolitical scientific /medical discovery into a wedge issue overnight? Similarly with Bud Lite... Soooo easy to manipulate these people's opinions/brand preferences/etc.

There has to be a way to harness that power for good... Like, can we convince them that entering voting machines turn you trans or some shit?

Someone much smarter and more media savvy than I should be doing something like this.

Edit: apologies for the USA- centric references, still getting used to checking what instance I'm on before commenting. Regardless, I think the overall point stands.

Also, seems like corporations have figured it out to a point since this article itself is about gas company lobbying.

Where are the leftists with these tactics? Are we all collectively just too ethical for that kind of dirty shit?