(As a relatively-unimportant side-note, I’d like to add that sometimes it’s not so much a matter of party loyalty as it is party spite. For example, “Party X’s actual policies are a better match for my values, but I despise the groupthink-enforcing anti-intellectual cultural forces associated with their local supremacyso much that I’m going to vote for Party Y, not because Party Y would actually be any better on the free-speech/pro-intellectualism front if they took power, but because I feel better supporting the currently-losing side of an Evil vs. Evil conflict.”)
(As a relatively-unimportant side-note, I’d like to add that sometimes it’s not so much a matter of party loyalty as it is party spite. For example, “Party X’s actual policies are a better match for my values, but I despise the groupthink-enforcing anti-intellectual cultural forces associated with their local supremacy so much that I’m going to vote for Party Y, not because Party Y would actually be any better on the free-speech/pro-intellectualism front if they took power, but because I feel better supporting the currently-losing side of an Evil vs. Evil conflict.”)