From your agnostic, liberal and libertarian son,
Dad, you're doing alright, but there's no way you're getting classified as "super-rich" after sending a girl to college & having her bring home a surprise grand-kid, rehab and a pan-global plane ticket for another kid, Tammy's therapy and whatever else she did I'm not privy to. I'm not sure what you've done for Sara or Anne, but I presume there's something if only the borrowing of money. Lord knows I "borrowed" money over the years. There's a point to be made here, bear with me.
Why do poor people vote like they are rich? A lot of poor-conservatives vote for representatives that are going to take them to the cleaners and provide them no aid. And don't dare ever raise taxes, for anyone. That's socialism. Bear in mind that this hypothetical, poor family's taxes aren't going to be touched, considering the tax-bracket they inhabit toward the bottom. Instead of voting for a bill that would take more from the rich, who can obviously bear the burden more easily, and provide the trailer-family with help, they instead seem to enjoy a game called "pacify the purdy-prisoner" (an ugly phrase used in some circles consisting of one... for now). These people have surely been brain-washed to inflict such pain upon themselves. More likely they are misinformed, a none too difficult trick to pull off on our uneducated trailer-family. Indeed. The gap between rich and poor is higher in this country than at any other time in history. This should give us pause. Revolutions such as the French example (causing many be-headings) follow the sorts of economic inequalities we have, with a regularity one can set a historical watch by.
A quick aside here, the book Freakonomics says poor-conservatives vote this way because of the belief/hope that they will someday become rich. The lottery then (or similar device), becomes a steam valve venting the rage such a gross economic-disparity causes. Hope is a powerful thing, no matter the statistical impossibility that it will ever happen to you). I'm not going to put up my life-savings on the predication that I will be struck by lightning on a certain day unless I had a Delorean replete with flux-capacitor).
It's gone so far that rich people are finally telling the trailer-families of America to wake the fuck up, and align our country with a model that's closer to a more stable government, with healthier, consistently happier people. I'm afraid the bottom-line works great as the god of the business world, but it is an uncaring, viscous model by which to run a society of people. Don't forget what we're dealing with. These aren't numbers, votes or statistics. A new model need not change much. We already have the perfect document that lays it out quite well. It's time to get back to the Constitution. It's time to start using models that have borne fruit in Europe and to stop using politically-coined bogeymen like "socialism". These words have no meaning. They are not discussed intelligently and merely become epithets.
Here's the part that will sour it for you, "Warren Buffett said that for those making more than $1 million -- there were 236,883 such households in 2009 -- he would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including dividends and capital gains." Now, I have no idea how you have it stored and how much of it is liquid, but that would definitely raise your taxes, yes? On voting day, you can do as most do and consider it justified, to vote to your own benefit - knowing the poor, stupid Trailer-Family will provide the leanest of majorities by voting to their own detriment. Oh well, I guess they can just go back to selling Oxycontin.
I hate using people's beliefs against them (Nah, as an agnostic I actually really dig it, so that's two karmic-demerits for me, sapped from my xi by a Warlock priest.), but here goes. God listens to your heart when you pray, not your wish-list. I'm going to have to assume consensus here, forgive me.
On voting day, all you have to do is think back to the Sunday sermon, when they implored you to love your fellow-man as you love yourself, and ask yourself, "What would Jesus do?" or more specifically, "How would Jesus vote?" Remember, God is aligned with no one's Party, Football Team, or securing parking spots for Soccer Moms. It certainly doesn't align itself with a country, a group of people, or a particular piece of land. People seem naturally adroit at anthropomorphizing their gods, aliens, and monsters. Jeez, I wonder if this stuff is connected and has a history? I'll stop here else we'll have to jump into Jung, and that's a long fall, and it's late.
Thomas Jefferson:
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.