"The 2004 Election another pyrric for white supremacy"

Why would so many US working and middle class citizens vote against their own class interests in the recent presidential election? And what can really be said about the "morality" of those who oppose stem cell research, effective social programs for the poor and disadvantaged, adequate funding of schools, abortion and the right of women to control their bodies, national health care insurance, and affirmative action programs but at the same time support capital punishment, economic inequality with the most extreme income gap between "haves" and "have-nots" of any industrial nation, racism, both structural and otherwise, and the criminal invasion of Iraq with the slaughter of at least 100,000 children, women, and men all for the sake of Iraqi oil and imperialist dreams of conquest and domination, and white supremacist visions of world hegemony? Given such glaring contradictions, one wonders if many US citizens are able to discern the difference between the wheat and the chaff and what is the quality of their reality contact. Or is there another dynamic lurking just beneath the surface:  white control, white exclusivity, and in a word, whitesupremacy under the guise of so-called "Christian" values which are often egregious violations of many of the basic tenets of authentic Christianity including the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," a rule predicated on liberty, justice and equality, as well as other integrative aspects of Christianity like "Love thy neighbor as thy self" which speaks of socialism rather than unjust, misanthropic, dog-eat-dog capitalism and class conflict. [more]