link to original reddit post by /u/MasterTeacher123
I didn’t vote in the last election and I’m not a fan or supporter of voting in general but this is a phrase I’ve seen online be used for years mostly by people on the left.
“People need to stop voting against their own self interest guys”.
The notion is that those people are voting for the “wrong” people and their candidate is the “right” guy. It comes from this idea that we are the “enlightened ones” and everyone else is too stupid Racist, homophobic, lazy to make the “right” decisions. You also see this when they talk about how we need to ban “misinformation” . They don’t trust people to find the “right” information so we have to ban the “bad” stuff.