Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

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