I don’t have any significant disagreement here, except that I’m not sure if you believe that people’s ideological views tend to be actually motivated by this kind of self-interest. I certainly don’t think this is the case—to me it seems like a very implausible model of how people think about ideological issues even just from common-sense observation, and it’s also disproved by the systematic evidence against the self-interested voter hypothesis.
I don’t have any significant disagreement here, except that I’m not sure if you believe that people’s ideological views tend to be actually motivated by this kind of self-interest. I certainly don’t think this is the case—to me it seems like a very implausible model of how people think about ideological issues even just from common-sense observation, and it’s also disproved by the systematic evidence against the self-interested voter hypothesis.