Given that immediately after you posted this, about 10 of my older and unrelated posts got downvoted in a row (and counting), I'm going to guess that you are one of the people block-downvoting me. Classy.
I wish I could say that it doesn't depress me that people would be willing to go through all that effort just to make me feel bad, but it kind of does.
Perhaps someone just went through some of your comments and didn't like them either. You feeling bad is probably not the sole intention of those downvotes. People will be more than happy to upvote some of your comments if they start being relevant to rationality.
I looked through some of your comments, and they're not equally downvoted. Some of them are upvoted. I expect there's some signal there if you're willing to look for it. Might not be a signal you like or care about, though.
If possible, I would like to hear the reason for the downvoting of the above post. Specifically, whether the reason is:
1) It discusses politics (in response to an article about politics?)
2) The reasoning is fallacious
3) It was written by me
4) People don't like silly examples
5) It sounds vaguely leftish
6) The point I made is so obvious that it's redundant
7) people prefer to have their politics debates one-sided
8) It's too long, says very little and doesn't have a summary preceding it. 9) Almost all of your writing is either political or meta, which suggests you don't belong here and will only add noise. 10) You've clearly failed to learn from previous criticism.
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This one (which you explained well)
This one sat at -2 for awhile; I was confused by that.
This one also sat at -2 for quite awhile, but seems to have come up recently.
...huh. On the whole, most of the severely-downvoted posts that I remember being confused about, have since been upvoted to low-positives. I had no idea. Thank you for prompting me to take the time and attention to notice that.
I guess, then, a more direct question I have is "how do I bring my karma into the 90%'s, instead of the low 70%'s where it is now?" - I've always felt that percentages are a better measure of my worth to the community than numbers. (Alternatively, if this is an incorrect assumption, then how do I update so that I see the percentages as not that important?)
In many of your comments you seem to advocate an overly pessimistic view of humanity and portray people as unusually selfish or sadistic. Single instances of such comments might not get downvoted, but once there are enough of them to make a pattern, this might evoke a stronger reaction and even oversensitivity to such a pattern causing innocent comments to get the punishment. I haven't downvoted such comments, but don't want to see them either. This feels like a matter of mental hygiene. In some of your comments you're introducing negative bias that takes unnecessary cognitive work to counter and I think you know which comments I'm talking about.
From your previous comments I infer you're aware of this bias, or at least that other people consistently view it as such. It seems to me this bias is specific to certain topics, so if you don't know how to counter it yourself, it might be better to avoid these topics as much as possible. Even if you think your ideas of some aspects of human psychology are accurate, you might want to reconsider your prospects of making people conform to them here in light of accumulating evidence, and pursue more fruitful and noncontroversial discussion.