People say what ultimately decide a person's behavior is her/his self-interest, not the sense of "right and wrong".
But in the recent presidential election, we saw a counter case: millions of low-income people voted against their own economic interest, voted for lowering rich people's contribution to the society common wealth, voted for paying higher out-of-pocket health care cost, voted for less rights for working people... in exchange for something illusional: voting for some born-againer whom against gay-marriage and abortion somehow would increase one's own chances to go to heaven.
The strange and sad thing is, the richest few have already successfully convinced the mass poor (and near poor) that they are ideological buddies and share a common enemy while happily digging into poor people's pockets all the while.
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