Upton Sinclair on why Rs vote against their economic interests

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

[WhiteTara]

1. thanks!

[nykym]

2. Very ggod

I like this one too.
John Dickinson: "...don't forget that most men without property would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich, than face the reality of being poor."

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

3. Ha! The United States of *It Could Happen to You!*

[KamaAina]

4. We need to bring back his "End Poverty In California" campaign

of course, if our candidate lost, it'd be an EPIC FAIL.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Excellent quote! I see that dynamic in action all the time

In political and non-political ways.

In political ways, it's usually in support of a ( social ) wedge issue in the face of overwhelming evidence of corrosive policy.

In the workplace, as lower management obsequiously tow the line in support of bad or counter-productive policy from above. You can see the cognitive dissonance eating at them as they know we know they're full of shit.

Another quote ( author unknown ) I saw that's a similar dynamic:

"I'd rather sink with good theory than swim with an ugly reality". Something like that.