Many of the permanent, steadfast democrat voters we know are highly educated professionals, leaders among the expert class who genuinely believe government will save them. Through my wife and the miracle of marriage law I happen to be related to several of them. One of them, mid-30's, holds a master's in biological engineering systems from VA Tech and helped to create a COVID-19 vaccine. Another, late-60's, MIT graduate recently retired from a forty plus year career with the US Army civilian chemical corps where he engineered multiple chemical weapons. Yet another took dual master's degrees from Boston University and retired from a decades long teaching position in public schools.
I have spent untold hours since meeting them all years ago—trying to puzzle out what makes them tick; what makes them vote democrat. I have my theories but none of them sit well with my gut or brain. All three people I described above are good people at heart . . . who just happen to openly support insane political ideology, and do so as if it's a given and no big deal, really.
Go figure