Reply #29: Indeed, indeed.

[Neil Lisst]

They have used wedge issues to take some of our traditional coalition.

They run at blacks on homosexuality.

They run at whites on affirmative action, etc.

They run at labor with the second amendment.

They run at the middle class with "welfare cheats."

They run at the religious with "atheists."

They do exploit wedge issues, but we often make it easy for them do so by being unreasonable ourselves. There is a large distance between believing in something and disrespecting what others believe.

In my opinion, our core problem is too many political snobs who enjoy being offensive to mainstream America.