Oh, the Irony (which *they* say *we* can't live without...)

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Excerpt from Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?:

Explaining why [a small-town Pennsylvania man] and his neighbors voted for George Bush, he said: "These people are tired of moral decay. They're tired of everything being wonderful on Wall Street and terrible on Main Street." Let me repeat that: they're voting Republican in order to get even with Wall Street.

The author goes on to say

This is not yet the place to try to sort out the tangled reasoning that leads a hardworking citizen of an impoverished town to conclude that voting for George W. Bush is a way to strike a blow against big business...