I have to take exception to this . There are many people who not only do not vote in their own financial interest , they have repeatedly voted against it for 35 years . And many of these people are today angry about the establishment that they in large part helped create . Many of the white working class are the people that cheered Reagan breaking the backs of the unions and their diminished political and economic leverage . The swallowed trickle down economics like tasty koolaid not once but half a dozen times despite those policies making no measurable improvement in their lives . Most of them bought into the trade deals , bought into the financial and other deregulation that bit them in the ass , opposed government intervention in a crashing economy , and on and on . Not to mention the social values voters who , for example , reelected Bush in 2004 because they didn ' t like gay marriage and whose votes are too often swayed by what candidate can fake being religious more convincingly . These people by in large need to stop pointing fingers at others and look in the mirror . The policies they are mad about today weren ' t imposed on them they voted for them again and again .