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Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. by bigstrat2003 on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:20PM (#48183438)
> 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

Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. by hn_acc1 on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:07PM (#48184112)
There are people voting to make their lives worse, as long as "other's lives" will be made even more worse as a result.