The minority speaks for all of us

 All this is happening while polls consistently show that at most a
fifth of the country subscribes to the religious views of those in the
Republican base whom even George Will, speaking last Sunday on ABC’s
“This Week,” acknowledged may be considered “extremists.” In that
famous Election Day exit poll, “moral values” voters amounted to only
22 percent. Similarly, an ABC News survey last weekend found that only
27 percent of Americans thought it was “appropriate” for Congress to
“get involved” in the Schiavo case and only 16 percent said it would
want to be kept alive in her condition. But a majority of American
colonists didn’t believe in witches during the Salem trials either –
any more than the Taliban reflected the views of a majority of Afghans.
At a certain point – and we seem to be at that point – fear takes over,
allowing a mob to bully the majority over the short term. (Of course,
if you believe the end is near, there is no long term.)

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