[zests]

If increased voter turnout helps your political party, you are likely to support it. If it hurts your political party, you are likely to be against it.

When talking about politics its hard to tell whether or not people "believe X because Y" or "believe X because it helps the party". Maybe they don't actually care about X but have meta-awareness and claim to believe X because it helps the party.

This is what makes political discussions annoying and frankly inappropriate. There is no possible way to argue in good faith and people have vested interest in arguing outside of good faith. I'd wager that some people believe they are arguing in good faith but do not realize that they are dramatically influenced by the orthodoxy of their political party.

[neotek]

>If increased voter turnout helps your political party, you are likely to support it. If it hurts your political party, you are likely to be against it.

If you care about democracy in the slightest then you support an increased voter turnout regardless of how it affects your party.