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> [People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bloomberg/people-vote-against-their-own-interests-that-all-the-time-but-when/)

[Michael Bloomberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bloomberg/)

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> [How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/how-to-get-people-to-vote-against-their-interests-and-to-really-think/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-lamont-hill/the-truth-is-there-are-people-who-are-quite-informed-who-still-vote/)

[Marc Lamont Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-lamont-hill/)

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> [The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-noah/the-fallacy-is-that-politicians-don-t-really-do-much-about-social/)

[Timothy Noah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-noah/)

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> [It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-niccol/it-s-always-interesting-for-me-that-people-vote-against-their/)

[Andrew Niccol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-niccol/)

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> [Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-rawls/ideal-legislators-do-not-vote-their-interests/)

[John Rawls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-rawls/)

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                        "text": "People vote against their own interests that all the time. But when you do the polling in the U.S., it has gone from less than 50 percent who thought climate change was real to 70-odd percent. And if you listen to the Republicans in Congress, they used to say, \"Oh, climate change doesn't exist.\" Then they switched to \"Well, it exists, but it's not man-made,\" to \"Well, I'm going to address the issue.\" Why? Because when they go home, the local constituent says, \"Wait a second. What are you talking about? We just had a flood. We haven't had rain in a long time.\" They can't get away from it.",
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