[throw0101d]

> Why do they vote for the extreme right wing, you may be wondering? Mostly out of spite. They really hate people on the left, who they see as smug.

People would rather bear illness (themselves, family) and even die than let the 'wrong people' get some assistance (which would also help themselves):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness

[surgical_fire]

That's interesting, I didn't know od this book. But it is similar to the anecdote I was pointing to.

They would rather vote for politicians that will increase economic inequality by benefitting the upper classes with tax breaks and dismantle every semblance of a safety net for the general population, just because they really hate the people on the left.

I perceive this because whenver their extreme right has any victory (and I say this in the broader sense, for example, if the leftist government gas to withdraw a proposal because it was successfully blocked) they don't celebrate that the proposal that was withdrawn was bad, they celebrate that those assholes in the left got pwned.