To those that understand (probably) and yet ignore:
You must keep this in mind: the left gets and retains power because they promise what the masses want to hear: something for nothing, the destruction of privilege, and the overthrow of wealth. Their message is simple, emotional, and easily understood by even the simplest and most ignorant folk; it appeals to all their baser instincts: greed, sloth, envy, and hatred; while at the same time attracting the intellectual classes by appealing to their noblest instincts: a desire for justice, peace, and equality. Indeed, many of them even fool themselves with their own propaganda, genuinely believing they are making the world a better place.
The message of conservatives and libertarians, on the other hand, appeals not to emotions and feelings, but to reason, the capacity for which most people, especially the masses entirely lack. It is simply impossible to explain to the average man, who is wholly incapable of rational thought, that the gleaming promises of the left are false and in the end will leave him worse off than he is now; to him the arguments of the right, which require education and intelligence to understand, are the ones that seem false, pernicious, and self-serving. Contrary to the common belief, the truth does not often win out in the end; for attractive lies that appeal to the emotions, especially the baser ones, will always defeat rational, but unattractive truth.
The right can never do more than fight a hopeless rearguard action against the left, which must inevitably triumph in the end. Emotion, ignorance, stupidity, folly, idealism, and the force of history are on its side; we have only the pitiful power of rational argument on ours. Tyranny, slavery, poverty, and misery are the inevitable fate of mankind. The liberty we enjoyed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were but a brief aberration in the long history of oppression that is the normal condition of man through the ages.
