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[quote=Anonymous]Democrats have a few psychological dynamics that prevent optimal strategizing.  We SHOULD want to deliver policies that most Americans support.  That would help us a) improve more American lives; and b) win more votes and more elections.  But we often DON'T support policies popular with the American people.  Why not?

1) Anti-Trumpism.  If he likes it; we tend to hate it.  We tell ourselves it's bad even if it's not.  Even when we KNOW it's good, we'll often be against it to deny him a popular win.  We'd rather deny it to the people for four years so WE can give it to them.

2) Democrats imagine ourselves to be intellectuals.  So if we like a policy, we're quite sure it's correct, even if unpopular.  We also don't like admitting we've ever been wrong, so we stand staunchly by terribly ineffective policies that have been demonstrably failing for years.

3) Progressivism is a dangerous drug.  The world view is that we should always be "opposing" tradition and the status quo.  The idea is that we are the most evolved enlightened ones, dragging the rest of society along behind us.  So if we support something that only 30% of Americans support, we don't think of that as "wrong," just "early."  We see it as our job to PUSH THROUGH unpopular ideas that WE believe in, because we're sure the rest of the world will EVENTUALLY believe in them too if we can force them to evolve.  [/quote]

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