Do you vote
* in your own best interests?
* in the best interests of your country?
* in the best interests of your world?
* in the best interests of the worst-off people?
Do you think there’s a moral duty to vote in any of these four ways?
Do you think practically that societies / countries / world will succeed better if people vote in any of the four ways?
Do you think that conservatives vs liberals have systematically different answers to these questions, that explain why they vote differently?
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I vote for what is in the best interests of the country. Which in turn is in my best interests.
What is in the US best interest is also what is in the best interests of the world AND the best interests of the worst among us. I rich successful country can do more for the world and more for the poor than the reverse.
Best interests of the country. even though it screws my most of the time.
I don’t really see it that way, as a zero sum. I think the most good for the most people results from doing the right thing, and sometimes that is directly good for me or bad for me, it’s indirectly going to be good for me either way.
Like cuts to welfare for example. Directly good for me because less of my resources are unfairly taken for non-producers who could produce. Directly bad for those who lose it, but indirectly good for them because now they must produce and will have the fulfillment and honor of being productive and upright in society. Good for the country when we are all more in alignment with that theory of being, that we were made to create and produce and laziness and sloth and cheating the system are bad for the country and bad for the people who do, even if indirectly. Does that make sense?
Kind of a loaded question because I’m sure you think that the left votes differently and more generously. But to take you at your simple question, yes. I vote for what I think is best in all of those. No candidate is perfect but I’ve found that voting conservative and Republican aligns with what I think is best for me, my fellow americans, even the worst amongst us, and the world.
I believe that those on the left would say the same thing only vote differently. Only difference is the left will pretend that they aren’t voting for their own interests. They still are. They just like to pretend they aren’t.
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The left vote in the worst interest of all four…
Best for the country, which is coincidentally best for myself. I don’t care about the interests of the world. You and I likely define “worst-off” people very differently. It’s my view that if you are a US citizen, you are definitionally within the top 5% of all living humans.
Local community, country, myself, the world.
I’d like to believe my political beliefs allow for the best to fall and the worse to rise and therefore the “worst off people” aren’t really a permanent category
I vote for what’s best for me and my family first and secondly what’s best for the nation.
I see my interests as being best served by the same outcomes that best serves the interests of my country, the world and the worst off people.
I think to consider my interests independently of these other factors would be to misunderstand the interactions between these factors.
If it’s in my interest, it’s also in the interest of the country.