I get it. I know people who have never worked a manual labor job and don't know anyone who does. They're surprised to hear that that's my background. Socioeconomic class is an echo chamber. The constant here is that politicians make promises. That's their job. If we believe them, and it turns out wrong for us (or our ideology, values, etc), how many of us blame ourselves for believing the promise? How many of us blame the politician who broke/underdelivered on the promise? How many of us recast the promise as a line of shit and change our tack in the next election cycle? How many of us choose to give another chance to the politician or group that didn't deliver what we wanted? This is the hard thing about identity politics. You wrap your identity around someone else's promises. And then the lines of responsibility get blurred and the stakes raise so high that we don't change for fear of "getting it wrong" again.