I support the Police...

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7. In every example you give, it's pretty simple.

People make those decisions because what they are voting for -- someone who says what they feel is the right thing when it comes to assimilation, someone who is in a third party, someone who says what they want to hear about Black people, whether explicitly or coded in welfare terms -- is more important than what they might actually lose. There are plenty of people who believe it's more likely that a strongman will level policies at the right people -- such as Jews who insist on not being more German than Germans, or Black people in general -- than turn on his supporters. And even when supporters get hurt, their interests are generally making sure that people they don't like a hurting *worse.*

Assuming that we think we know what's "best" for anyone is why Democrats have so much trouble with messaging tbh.

ETA: I mean, you hit right on it in your OP:

You would think that wanting to be safer at a dangerous job would be issue one in their minds. Yet, police unions and officers, individually, support elected officials and candidates for office who make them less safe.

"Being safer" might actually be "issue one" in their minds. They feel it makes more sense to "be safer" through larger budgets rather than other policies. Larger budgets make them feel safer than more gun control might, that's all.