Voting Against One’s Best Interests

People who don’t vote in their best interests come in two varieties. Ironically, they’re polar opposites:

Altruists.  Many people with no kids in school vote for school bond issues because education is important to society. The same can be said about people with health insurance voting for universal healthcare, and the list goes on.

Idiots.  Many of the people who voted for Trump, especially in 2020, believe that tax breaks for billionaires create jobs, that environmental responsibility hurts the economy, that the former president is bringing jobs back from overseas, that Jews are replacing them, and, most glaringly, that the U.S. medical industry is conspiring to shut down the American economy and social fabric with pandemic remedies that have no scientific value.

Strange days indeed.