Self-Interest

 Why do people vote against their own self-interest? Because they believe in a greater good.

Take me, for example. I’m an old white guy, now retired, a native-born, middle-class, middle American, straight, Anglo-Saxon, college-educated, law-abiding, tax-paying, monolingual gringo. The USA is optimized for people like me. I’ve spent my whole life working and voting against my own self-interest and am damn proud of it!