There can be an overlap between political and other motivations. I like conspiracy theories, read/listen/watch them often and follow conspiracy theory accounts on twitter. But I don't think it is particularly beneficial to Hive to reward them very heavily. For one thing, many of them have their own monetization and are multichannel/reposts and would post anyway. For another when we are overrun with them (which is sure to happen if they are overrewarded), it is a turn off to the majority of the audience who doesn't buy in or find them appealing. Our money is better used elsewhere. I can't speak for curangel who probably downvotes more than I do.
I also downvote stuff where there is no political issue at all, like photo blogs and travel blogs because I think many of them are basically reward mining (go out, take some pictures, post and earn $100). Again most of these would post anyway (as people do on no-reward social media and photo sites all day every day) and don't benefit Hive that much.
I upvote and downvote where I want to see rewards go to benefit Hive and grow my investment. Of course this is my subjective opinion, as with every other voter.
If recent events have taught me anything it's that I'm extremely paranoid.
Good thing I stopped smoking the reefers.
That has never happened to me in the four and half years that I've spent so far on Hive. I guess "I'm bad at politics" :)
Not to single anyone out, as there are quite a few accounts doing this, so identifying information deliberately removed, but here's a recent post from Trending (not $100 but still quite a bit).