“People are basically lazy. They don’t care about politics until their ox is gored”.
Exactly right. Too many people don’t care unless it affects them personally. They cannot see the big picture.
That is why discussions which try to persuade or dissuade an individual must center on how certain things adversely affect that individual.
I know there are many Dem gun owners who own guns for protection or hunting but they still vote Dem. They cannot connect the dots.
I think that for a lot of Democrats that Liberalism is their religion rather than their party.
From welfare to abortion these people take Democratic policies as articles of faith.
This is why when Hillary lost the election unexpectedly there was the wailing grief, the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments to be seen at the Democrat watch parties all across the nation. The only things missing was the wearing sack cloth and ashes in the hair.
The virtue signaling of Democrats is another sign. They show each other how devout they are by displaying how woke they are. Voting for Obama the First Black President (if you don’t count Bill Clinton) even though he had destroyed the economy and ballooned the national debt into the stratosphere was a BIG virtue signal.
They can’t not vote Democrat because it would be like leaving the Jehovah Witnesses to become a Scientologist. It would be a completely different belief system.