Stop saying Republicans are acting against their own interests.

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4. They are not acting against their interests, IMO. Liberals don't understand their interests.

True, their votes are against their economic interests, if they are the blue collar ones. But people have more than economic interests. They also have social and class issues, etc.

The rich Republicans are very much acting in their own economic interests, to the point of actually harming others, and they don't care. The middle class Republicans probably think that in the long run, their economic interests are served by Republicans, but even if they don't think so in the short term, they care a lot about social interests. They want to stop abortions, stop gay rights, stop affirmative action, build up the white man to where he used to be (so they think), make women REAL women again, stop supporting deadbeats, stop taxes from increasing, etc. These are just some of their interests, and they very much vote for those things.