I have seen reference to a book that has a title, something like:  The 
Kansas Effect.  The book suggests that certain issues such as prolife 
and gay marriage are used by conservatives for misdirection and 
distraction for the masses.  If you are all fired up about those issues, 
you likely are not paying attention to the tax code changes, the fact 
that your work place is less safe, your environment is more polluted, 
you lost your health insurance, etc.  In effect they are misdirections 
for the masses by politcians with an economic agenda for the wealthy and 
corporations.  Hence, there really cannot be  a prolife and 
proenvironment politician (regardless of the words that may come from 
the politicians mouth).    I've read reports of religous, proenvironment 
groups that believe we should be taking care of God's earth, and they 
are stunned that there politicans don't understand their environmental 
concerns.  Do I believe that politics is this cynical.  Yes, in an 
instant.  Lanny Schwartz

P.S.  I wanted to be brief, and I realize there is a bit of sterotyping 
in the above.  L.S.

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