Why People Vote Against Their Interests

For a long time on the various left-wing blogs I've participated in the one general idea that everyone seems to have trouble wrapping their heads around is why people continually vote against their best interests.

I know a woman who's family has had a lot of hard luck. They are Fundamentalists who voted Republican because "the President talks to God..." She is somewhat disabled and should honestly be collecting disability. However, because of the budget cuts in Florida she was denied again and again until she had no more appeals. Her husband's overtime was cut. She tried her own business out of the home on her own time when she was well enough to do it, but it didn't go anywhere

The were forced to give back one vehicle. A second is about to be repossessed. They were turned down to refinance their home.

What is her answer to all this? It's God's will... God has a plan...

So nothing that happens is the fault of anyone in this world. When overtime is cut or people are laid off while CEOs continue to rake in millions of dollars and are given tax breaks on top of it, somehow that's "God's will" or "part of God's plan".

There is no accountability between these people and the leaders they have voted into office. It's sad because there is no reasoning with them. They have been brainwashed by their church leaders to be good little followers of the neo-conservative fascist brigade that is currently running this country, all in the name of God.

As a Christian myself, I find it abhorent and sad.