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by rsync
511 days ago
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"My friends that consistently vote for extreme right wing are, perhaps ironically, the ones that will suffer the most if they ever get on power." This is a very common - and very self-serving - trope: the poor dummies who vote against their economic interests. Haven't you and I voted for taxes ? Possibly progressive taxes ? Possibly even progressive taxes whose sole purpose was wealth redistribution ? I have voted for things like that and they are absolutely counter to my own economic interests. Shouldn't we expect participants in a democracy to consider more than simple economic benefits when casting votes ? If your own decisions are complex and nuanced why would you assume that's not the case for others ? |
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I did not call them poor dummies, and I never said anything about economic interests. Are you projecting your own perceived prejudices on me?
> Haven't you and I voted for taxes ? Possibly progressive taxes ? Possibly even progressive taxes whose sole purpose was wealth redistribution ?
> I have voted for things like that and they are absolutely counter to my own economic interests.
Except those things are not counter to my economic interests? I certainly wouldn't suffer with less economic inequality.
> Shouldn't we expect participants in a democracy to consider more than simple economic benefits when casting votes ?
Absolutely. I just mentioned that my friends that vote for the extreme right wing do so out of spite. They put their spite and anger above other interests. That is nuanced on its own right.
> If your own decisions are complex and nuanced why would you assume that's not the case for others ?
Once again you are assuming that I consider my own voting decisions somehow superior - or "complex and nuanced" as you put it. What implies that I consider them to be simpletons.
Except my original reply had no such connotations. I am not a giant my friend, I am just a windmill.