I am not defending him, and I can see looking at his record those type post are about 1/4 to 1/3 of what he down votes. On the other hand 80% plus of his down votes have up votes from haejin, rancho and xeldal. A person would be very hard pressed to find a single down vote of his that went on an account post with out one of those three up voting the post.
I have seen down votes for political/life views from large accounts going both left and right side of the arguments. Down votes of that nature is because people are in fear that the view point they have been following might, just might be wrong, so they try to silence the voice. If it is excessive it does not matter what side of the track you are on, depending on how I feel at the time I some times speak out to the down voter. Does it help? Sometimes, twice that I remember the down vote was removed. I do not speak out much about how people vote, it is their stake and their choice.
So many of the big accounts downvoting are constantly damaging the platform and driving away users...many of my friends quit steemit because of it, and that is why I stopped using this account. Now I may start again to test out prob.
I just completed a post about my solution to the problem you are welcome to take a look and read or not. There is and has been a problem for a long time, one that will not be fixed until the people decide it needs to be fixed. So far I have seen very few solutions offered, just people offering to run away to somewhere else or wanting the down vote removed completely. Neither of those are real solutions. I hope a few more people post ideas on how to resolve the issue. As I state in my post HF 25 is almost done and HF 26 is coming up, it is time for people o think of solutions.
!ENGAGE 25
ENGAGEtokens.