Nicholas Kristof: Living Poor, Voting Rich

People like myself, who witnessed all the lies, deception corruption, war, dirty tricks, etc of the Bush administration are, today, wondering just what went wrong. There will be a lot of theories, but, to me, it's all about values and how Republicans use them, increasingly successfully, to get a majority to vote against their very own interests.

Nicholas Kristof writes about this phenomenon in today's New York Times. You can read it here.