In article , dpb wrote:

Not according to the citizens who paid the salaries of those politicians.

I suspect that wasn't universal, either. I'm quite sure there were a
number of taxpayers who either didn't care or were supportive as well as
those against. In fact, I would suspect in reality that the "didn't
cares" far outnumbered either of the other two factions and that
inaction of that large group allowed the agitation of the anti-s to be
far more influential than their numbers would otherwise be. That's the
typical scenario in almost all of these types of battles.

Nixon's "Silent Majority" strikes again.
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JR