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In reply to the discussion: Every day I marvel at how poor and middle class Republicans vote against their self-interests [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)You're thinking is that their ONLY interest is economical. Since the Republicans are offering social reforms and other things, no doubt those things are in the Republican middle class interest, as well. Then there's freedom from the federal government...regulations, requirements, etc. That is appealing to their sense of independence. Their thinking is that they'd rather be poor and free than a little richer and enslaved by the government.
It's the same thing with wealthy liberals. All those liberal movie stars....they're very wealthy, yet they, and some mega--wealthy people, like Buffet, vote against their financial interests when they vote for Democrats. So clearly they have OTHER interests that they care as much about if not more. Freedom from wacko religious nuts who want to constrain their creativity, cut off funding for the arts and PBS, denying gays full rights, maybe anti-semitism, etc.