I don't particularly look to celebrities for political endorsements, though.
Good. I find this obsession Dems have had with Taylor Swift quite weird, to borrow a term.
You haven’t shown that it is an “obsession,” at all.
But really, this is not hard to figure out, and I’m surprised that it eludes you. It’s quite straightforward and simple. Let me spell it out:
Campaigning and winning includes reaching an audience’s eyeballs with your message and getting them to act on it.
Just as the GOP is “obsessed,” to use your use of the term, with megadonors like Sheldon and now Miriam Adelson to get money to buy ads in places that people will actually pay attention to them, the Dems are delighted by an “ad buy” that is both free and actually watched without resentment by many millions.
I think most of her fanbase is too young to vote.
I’m surprised you would write this after right here in this thread it was shown to you that most of her fans are NOT, in fact, too young to vote. Did you find it hard to understand? Or that indeed you could have looked up yourself instead of assuming something that is not true at all.
What they meant by that was that most of her fans are over 18. Unspoken but implied is that most of
those are likely not previous voters. This makes them “new voters” if the attention of their eyeballs can be gained to notice the election, and the motion of their thumbs can be triggered to register for the election, and the movement of their feet can be prompted to fill in that bubble.
She is a free super-bowl ad. She’s five of them.
Her singing ability has absolutely NOTHING to do with why democratic party strategists stan her. This might be a novel view for you, but sometimes women are worth more for their personality than for their looks or one portion of their skill set.
As for whether she is a deft business-person (the other part of her skill set) and whether your named billionaires are not, obviously the key difference is that her particular business
is getting people’s attention and she is very very good at it, while theirs is not. People like to pay atention to what she is selling. Boohoo for you that you don’t like her product and that you allow this to cloud your ability to understand her value to others in the context of her field and how that is desired by people in adjacent fields of attention-getting like politics. Meanwhile no mention of how “obsessed” the GOP is with Miriam Adelson, despite her product being shit, right?
I’m surprised you weren’t able to gleen all of this from the context of the thread. It all makes perfect sense in a pragmatic scope, if you can put down your disdain for a certain type of music and recognize that it was never about that.