>>941913001
It'd be more accurate to call it tribalism. Us vs Them. Your mistake was being obvious and direct. I experience the same exact thing with my conservative family as with my liberal family, if you call them out they double down, but if you are gentle and careful you can often make progress.
That being said, democrats of late have definitely doubled down on the performative in-group reinforcement. The most egregious part is when they blame the voters for how they voted, rather than considering the possibility that they might have an unpopular platform.
The conceptual issue is, this is the inevitable outcome of the ideology of absolute tolerance. Which is to say, you can't be tolerant and let others be INtolerant, because then your tolerance is useless. So you shame the people who are really intolerant, kick them out, etc. But then you've just moved the line, there's still a 'most intolerant'. So you shame them, and the next, and so on and so forth down the line until eventually you arrive at a point where only tolerance can be tolerated.
Or more accurately, you can believe ANYTHING you want - but you just can't let it influence your actions. The fact this is paradoxical is ignored. This is why democrats are often paradoxically allies with muslims; they're 100% alright with muslims in the west because the west prevents muslims from acting as they'd wish, but they assume that this is how things will stay long-term.
It's honestly a little twisted if you think about it. Very 'white savior-esque'. They are 'civilizing the savages'.
Unfortunately, they are now reaching the point where they have excluded enough of the electorate to stop winning elections, and they don't know what to do, because allowing in more intolerant people is morally unacceptable, but people won't join them unless they do. So you end up just doubling down again and again on things that the average person has already kinda rejected.
TBH I'm not sure where they can go from here.
