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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
Its off the subject of the OP but your post gives me the opportunity to see how many of you agree with me that no more than a third of Democratic voters feel nearly as strongly as you do. The rest pretty much are:
The slightly empathetic/idealistic who would not go as far as 10%...I have been saying similar stuff for quite a while.
This is just not how politics works OR how people conceive of politics.
Firstly, if you would take 5k in exchange for deporting a million people, you are grossly immoral. But the percentage of such people is totally irrelevant, because it just isn't how politics works, as you don't get that 5k in isolation. You get it with millions of other people, in some big economy affecting thing. And you very well may reasonably believe the 1.5 trillion dollar tax bill is more important than DACA, but now we have moved very far from your charge.
Politics is fundamentally about tribalism. Undoubtedly when individuals are personally affected this is going to influence their connection to the tribe in various ways. But this "democrats are really more immoral than you all think" bit of yours is DOA.