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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I mean that's kinda my point. On it's own the right working class will support minimum wage increases. And then FOX ties supporting the minimum wage increase with supporting Planned Parenthood, Antifa, and eventually becoming Venezuela, and it's dead. I think that's the oddest part of all of this. Abortion, for instance, rarely directly affects most voters. Minimum wage quite obviously does. And yet they are able to get people to vote against a minimum wage candidate for the anti-abortion candidate, time and time again. It's a special kind of sorcery. I think we all wish we could figure out how to break the spell.
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There's no spell. There is also no such thing as "voting against ones interest". It's just that people's interests quite often are not what you think they "should be".
Personal financial interests just aren't a top voting priority for most people.
For example, let's look at that abortion vs. minimum wage thing.
That's a "do I want money for myself, if the price for it is countless babies dying" question. (Assuming you have a pro-life beliefs that is.) You have to be borderline sociopath to choose your own finances in that situation.
It's also just flat out wrong to say that this is specifically some working class thing.
Voting against a "higher minimum wage" candidate because of abortion is the exact same thing as when white upper middle-class people absolutely refuse to vote for tax-cutting candidate because they think he's a horrible racist, even when that would clearly be in their personal financial interest.
In fact it's the same thing than when any white person votes against a racist candidate. It would clearly be, on average, very much in the personal interest of white people to vote for white supremacy.
Yet pretty much nobody thinks like that. Personal benefit isn't even the reason white supremacists support white supremacy. They tend to quite genuinely believe they are doing it for the benefit of their children, and women, and the country in general.