I lived in a Democratic Party region for a time. I typically voted for locals who were conservative leaning. Changing your ideaology seems unlikely, as it reflects your core values, which don't shift at all or very little for most people.
Very true
The main parties have less to do with core values than keeping the status quo
keeping themselves in power which means keeping the crony capitalist system
we have grown over the years
Speaking of core values
Socialism, communism, fascism, crony capitalism are all forms of some level of CPE's
and share little with a true free market system. The Left finds some type of "comfort" in thinking
fascism is a child of the right and free markets, but they would be wrong. Fascists depend on and thrive on
a large and intrusive gov't or "big gov't", not small.
Indeed
Peter Drucker
"the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road
toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same.
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany."
Hayek
Fascism defined:
"It is simply collectivism freed from all traces of an individualist tradition which might hamper its realization"
Of course you know who said:
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak,
with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility
and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions."
Since communism or some socialist/statist variants have murdered more
people than any other political system,
one can understand why the Left tries to hide from it.
Of course, they miss the bigger picture
It is a problem of statism and the gov'ts role in our lives.
Quite often many call for certain goals or ends
with no appreciation of the means to get there
Which is why the US is in the mess we are today
Indeed, many on the Left think we will get "right"
this time