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Very true, but I wonder how many of them are “True Believers” and how many are still supporting dems for social or pragmatic reasons. I have to imagine a significant portion of that third sees what is going on. Whether they’d ever piblicly admit to seeing it is a different question.

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I think inertia is a huge problem. Most people vote for the party they've always voted for, regardless of how it's acting now. A few are able to step back and reassess, but that takes a lot of courage.

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Plus many still get their news from the msm which for the past 8 years has demonized Trump as a monster and even “another Hitler.” They prefer Joe with dementia to that.

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Pride. Pride is one of the toughest sins to deal with, to admit to. It is very insidious cuz its more invisible.

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Absolutely. And the more "high status" people think they are, the less likely they are to admit that they were wrong.

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