I hadn't heard the term "aspirational voting" before, but it describes a very real phenomenon. People don't want to be taxed if and when they get rich ~ which will probably never happen, and if it should happen, they'll be able to afford it ~ but don't stop to think about their real circumstances in the here-and-now, where they are required to carry an extra-heavy burden so that the well-connected can enjoy their lives of privilege.

I believe that this is part of the heritage of racism and slavery in the US. White Americans, naturally and unconsciously, assume that "someone else" will always be there to do the hardest work for the least compensation, essentially subsidizing a degree of comfort and relative affluence for the majority, and allowing even the least privileged members of that majority to think of themselves as part of a well-off upper-middle-class society.

Actually, all but the very poorest Americans, black as well as white, do enjoy a fairly comfortable standard of living ~ but significantly huge numbers are only able to continue living in the manner to which they've become accustomed by sinking deeper and deeper into debt. While entertaining the delusion that they'll be able to catch up and pay back "tomorrow," they refuse to face the near-certainly that no such tomorrow will ever come if our society and our economy continue to devolve according to current trends.

Huge numbers of folks are simply unable to recognize that they themselves have now become members of an unjustly exploited group. The sad truth is that 98% percent of us are getting poorer on a daily basis while the remaining elite 2% are greedily grabbing up everything they can, meanwhile mouthing slogans about how they represent "family values," and doing everything they can to distract the public from any valid and factual poliical discourse.