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You can't annoy someone into becoming differently-hearted about abortion, the death penalty, religion in the public arena, taxes and their governmental expenditures, or any sort of organized culturally elite stylized policies. Even though we domesticate animals some humans have had repeatedly bad experiences with the cultural domestication process.
And politics relies upon these eternal differences.
They will hate leftist policy because it means that bullying becomes harder to do. Controlling resources is now out of their hands in a very direct way, and usually people that need to dominate resources to feel safe will not abide by others having access to resources that they can't control the tap to.
And so that gets transformed one way or another. If they are big and have no problem doing crime they roll that.
If they are big and they start with a problem with crime then they roll blue. That system creates a whole 'nather version of criminality and there is no cure for it there, either.
Then you have the leftist which is usually someone that has been bullied enough to recognize oppression yet has not the power nor the force to make change.
And yet when they do ...
What the people who say that actually mean is, "I was on your sports team until you told me what your sports team stood for."
It's an "I voted Democrat because muh daddy voted Democrat and his daddy voted Democrat" situation. They were always Republicans, they just were too ignorant to pay attention and realize it.