Here’s a simple example. You put a political sign in your yard for a particular candidate because you support them. Their policies align with your values. You volunteer at their campaign office. You canvass for them. You put campaign bumper stickers on your car. Then, information comes out that the candidate was involved in a horrible scandal. The scandal is sufficiently bad that if you had heard this at the beginning of the election cycle, before you had made your choice, you would not have supported them in the first place. But you’ve already publicly asserted your support of the candidate.
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This very much forms the base to entire right vs left debate
