> I'd like to think better of them than that, but this could be the real explanation. I think the simple answer is that people, on average, are going to put th

> I'd like to think better of them than that, but this could be the real explanation. I think the simple answer is that people, on average, are going to put their interests first. I don't think political affiliation really plays into this beyond the fact that delivering on the Democratic platform often requires tangible local sacrifices that some people turn out to be unwilling to make when asked to and that the modern Republican platform is basically just for everyone to do nothing at all (or to punish more poor people in ways that are hard to see and in far away places they'll never go). I think its also often hard for people to connect the outcome of tangible local elections on "Prop # Whatever" to abstract philosophical goals like "more affordable housing". For example, it might be easy for a Chicago parent to think "I don't want my tax dollars to go to schools my kids won't attend" and "I think everyone deserves a good education" without seeing the contradiction because they don't understand the intricacies of how their local schools get their funding or what impact voting on the former will have on the latter.