They vote for republicans because their pastor tells them to.

Like the fact that restaurant owners are posting bad reviews online about how much worse other restaurants are, sometimes openly, sometimes anonymously. You do seem to address that in the last paragraph, but it's after you've left the analogy in the upper part and have moved on to your analysis.

They will only take things expensive, awful, and barely edible, even after learning there is more on the menu. After investing so much time and effort in the e,a,and be, pride keeps them from admitting they have been fooled for such a long period.

The only thing that will break that level of pride is the truly horrific expensive, awful, and barely edible.

Enough money to survive, Republicans tell them they do not need an increase in wages and they believe them so much they vote Republican. In the south prejudices overwhelm the common mind and they vote Republican because Democrats had the audacity to vote in a black president. Many of the low income people I talk to votes Republican because they are told Republicans restricts women's right of choice, another dumb move.

and one that was repeated on several pictures was the line about how many poor white people will be willing to vote Republican as long as Republicans give them the chance to look down on poor people of colour. And it is, sadly, still true. They want the opportunity to 'look down on' other people more than being better off themselves, if it might mean that those other people are also better off.

The essential point of them all is that a very large number of people will choose deny themselves more money if their accepting the increase is accompanied people beneath them getting larger increases that allow those previously on the bottom to catch up.

the steak is burned on one side and raw in the middle. it stinks, tastes lousy and makes him sick from the raw bits.

meanwhile, his partner says the fish is delicious, so they share it. he says, hey, this is not bad.

next week they return and order the same thing. she reminds him the steak was lousy last time but he says, yeah, but i'm really hungry and a nice juicy steak sounds great. same thing happens and they end up splitting her fish.

and again and again. no matter how many times, he keeps insisting he doesn't care for fish, it smells funny and isn't filling, and a nice juicy steak just sounds so good. it constantly disappoints but he can't help but continue to order it.