Events after October 7 have helped me understand why the majority of people don't change their vote, even if Bart Simpson is running their party or the leaders are shown up to be mired in corruption.
Most voters don't vote for a party. They vote for a world view and if the world view of the other party seems so off the scale, no matter what their own lot get up to, they won't hold their nose and vote for the others.
Yet, October 7 brought another factor into the equation. For some it was survival. For others it was a motivated attack on their ethnic or religious identity. And for others it was just the moral instinct to identify and support the victim, which was being put to challenge by terrorist propaganda, progressive politicians and the United Nations.
For those that didn't have those reasons, they will have gone on supporting the same sold same old, and are now likely to be aligned by proxy with a reprehensible cause. That is why this situation is so dangerous.
