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So when voting members of a functioning family vote, they vote the interests of the whole (I’d be *very* surprised if more than a tiny % of married couples with kids voted diff from each other, and it is significant that young people usually leave home when they can first vote)
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I’ll modify that claim to “length weighted” Strongly divergent couples are unlikely to even meet let alone date stably long enough to marry. If/when they do, I suspect one will gradually convert or politics will become a serious faultline.
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I imagine in many of the subset of cases with differing politics, one partner (usually the wife?) just hides their politics and parrots their partner's openly but votes differently in private
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Or they’re resourced and selfish enough that it’s a game to them because they’re not personally affected. Or they’re shielded and have a “no politics at dinner table” type family culture.
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