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Voters don't follow reason, not even ideology or morals. It's a matter of identity, like sports. Even if a team plays awfully, fans can bitch about the coach, management, or the players but they don't quit for a better team, they just think they'll have a better opportunity next season.
Need to start this with most.
I thought about starting with 'most', but I don't think it's necessary when it's a clear generalization, as the one I did. Also, 'most voters' sounds more concrete and solid and my comment is just an observation based on my own experience. And, maybe, it's all of us, to some extent. Like, how many different parties have you voted for? Because I've voted for a bunch of them (not American) but they were really all the same—local branches or rebrandings or whatever. But the only people I've seen jumping the isle literally changed their whole identity as well.
The two party system is a different thing though. Voting with reason means taking into account the system and the way it works. Personally I have always been left of center which means I have mostly voted democrat but not as much a team thing as voting in the direction I want us to go. The opposite trend is there as way back when an individual republican canidate might have been acceptable but that party has gotten worse and worse to the level that I feel they need to go away. Now im not saying all conservative parties have to go away but republicans are not a conservative party anymore and have not been for a long time. So I went from seeing them as a legitamate option on a case by case, individual by individual basis. To them being not an option with the presidency to not being an option at the federal level to not being an option at the state level to not being an option at the local level to feeling they need to go away. Its not a team thingfor me at all. I disagree to though that somehow a most is implied. I don't know where you get that from.