your point is that democrats and republicans don't believe in the stuff they claim to stand for but republicans are the ones you want to slam.
No that’s not my point.
I actually think core democratic constituents are transactional in relation to the Democratic Party.
So for example one core of the Democratic Party are black Americans.
black American democratic voters really do believe that racism is a massive problem in American society. They really do believe that economic, educational, and residential opportunities are much poorer for black Americans, they really do believe that the criminal justice system is unfair to black Americans, etc.
They want the federal, local state governments to address those issues, they vote for Democrats cause they have policy ideas about those issues they support.
You can basically do that same thing with most of the democratic constituents, they want their particular group issues addressed that they think are directly impacting their lives for the worse. So of course they believe that stuff.
The vast majority of democratic voters do not identify as ideological liberal.
Their political concerns aren’t driven by this broad ideology that guides how they view all other political issues.
republican voters who broadly identify as conservatives on the other hand do claim to have this philosophical ideological belief system that guides how they view all political issues.
trump has exposed that all to be a huge fraud.
republicans don’t care about the conservative agenda at all.
republican voters couldn’t tell you what trump believes on any issue outside of hating Muslims, South American immigrants, and black people from crap hole nations, and they don’t care.
That’s my point.
The two parties are not mirror images of one another.
The Democratic Party is much more diverse, and has a wider set of disagreements within the party. My dad votes for Democrats, but he doesn’t care about lgbt rights or gay marriage, he doesn’t care about feminist issues, etc. I know many unionmembers who vote for democratic candidates, but they don’t support democrats focusing on fighting racism or housing and school segregation. This means getting democrats on the same page is very very difficult.
republicans are much more homogenous. The Republican Party is mostly older and bwhite Americans. That’s like 90% of the Party, and they have much narrower disagreements, they tend to care about the same issues, so messaging amongst republicans is very strong. Getting them on the same page is relatively easy.