Saturday, January 30, 2010

WHY DO AMERICANS OFTEN VOTE AGAINST THEIR OWN INTEREST?

Good article:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm


EXCERPT: 
Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different:

"You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our life times, workers have been stripped of power, and CEOs are rewarded in a manner that is beyond imagining.

"It's like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy."
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