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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 08:34 AM
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7. What caused our country to go so far right?
The better question is what causes our country to elect such right wing leaders? If you read national opinion polls, we as a country hold liberal views but elect the most right wing nut cases.

I live in Utah, when Gov. Leavitt was "elevated" to head of the EPA, his Lt. Gov. Oleen Walker became gov. Going into the state GOP convention she had an 83% approval rating in the state. She would have been the first republican I voted for in my life. Defeated at convention.

It doesn't feel like democracy anymore.
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