M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because...
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have...
So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car....
People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.