For the last several years, the conservative religious right wing has been effective in winning over the hearts and "minds" of a large percentage of the American people. They've even managed this in areas that make no sense. Tort reform. Health care reform. Unions. Across the United States, working class people are embracing policies in these areas that will ultimately, over the medium and long term, do them great harm.
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