I have a Fort Worth LEO friend who works in the highest crime areas of the city. He’s a Democrat. Whe we talk politics and I question him about his policy beliefs, I find that his values are strictly conservative.
He insists that he is “old school” Democrat. When I ask what that is, he explains that he is against the super wealthy making money on the backs of working men like himself. He truly believes that the Republican Party stands for the wealthy against the common man.
Yet he complains about all of the reglations that hinder him from doing his job and the welfare families on his beat who use their benefits for drugs and alcohol. I ask him what he would do if he had money to invest. He says he’d start a business and guarantee his own success.
He’s stuck in a mindset that his father (a farmer) instilled in him. A police officer who can’t see the facts in front of him. Very frustrating.
My hubby thought this way too! Until I “changed” him. His dad was a “blue collar” democrat. But he was always anti-union. I converted him ;)