With all due respect, if your candidate is voting to
extinguish the lives of millions of innocent Americans, nothing much else
matters to a pro-life voter. You may call it a smoke screen, but it does
not cloud up the issue of the lives of unborn innocents.
Peggy Murdock
At 03:10 PM 6/13/2005, you wrote:
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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