Carl Remick wrote:
I think _What the Matter With Kansas?_ is a great book, but Frank doesn't really provide any explanation for conservatives' amazing, Lamont Cranston-style ability to "cloud men's minds" and substitute preposterous cultural issues for economic concerns that have life-and-death significance. Why *are* so many Americans so easily gulled, so mulish, so spiteful, so effing perverse?
Maybe because sex, race, and religion aren't "distractions" from the "real" issues, but things that people take really really seriously?
Doug
