[bigstrat2003]

> People routinely vote for candidates that will worsen their lives

To the extent this is true, that is only because they believe those candidates will make their lives better. People often declare how their outgroup "votes against their own interests", and use it as some kind of indictment of those people's intelligence. But that is nothing more than a failure to understand people. Essentially nobody is out there voting for someone whom they believe will make their lives worse m

[hn_acc1]

There are people voting to make their lives worse, as long as "other's lives" will be made even more worse as a result.