> So, here's a guy who's been permanently mutilated and had his marriage
> destroyed by a senseless war, yet *still* he's a Semper-Fi-All-the Way
> Marine and takes pride in ridiculing one of the Senate's most outspoken war
> critics.
>
> I honestly don't understand why working-class Americans are so positively
> *thrilled* to get fucked over and over and over by an establishment that
> has so little compunctions about squandering their lives.
>
> <http://homefires.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/will-i-ever-be-ok-again/>
I think the answer is pretty simple. In the American context, there are for most people two visible possibilities: reaction and liberalism. Given that choice, it's quite understandable to me that a lot of people choose reaction.