Like it or not, they're voting for the "feeling" that something will get done on this measure or that measure, which has been studied frequently to be the prima

Like it or not, they're voting for the "feeling" that something will get done on this measure or that measure, which has been studied frequently to be the primary driver of the majority of people at the voting booth. This just skips the middleman of having a coherent intellectual base. And if you think about it, so much of our economy is based on feelings rather than facts - "Market sentiment" is one of the larger economic indicators of future growth.. Of course, you have no way of knowing what someone will do, OTHER than to not betray the feelings that they've put out. If a large part of the country will not engage on hard facts and intellectualism, if you want them to come around to you you have to meet them where they are. They're not going to suddenly realize that everything they're constantly listening and engaging with isn't workable. Thats why I think the actual left will start to rise again (taking some of the trump voters with them) - there really hasn't been a good hard villainizing of the wealthy in a long while, but there's a huge sentiment for it and it can only continue to grow.