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Tanenhaus: Populism, Politics and the Power of Sarah Palin

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Pepper Fox12/06/2009 12:01:58 pm PST

re: #26 SixDegrees

Specific bigotries never completely disappear. But they dwindles into insignificance over time. There will always, though, be some small number who hang onto them.

On the topic of hating gays, my own projections for reducing that to an extreme minority position are that such a time, if not already here, certainly will be in a lot less than a half-century. The amount of progress that’s occurred just in the last few years has been rapid and widespread, almost startling.

Well we were on a pretty good track to full acceptance. Then Bush happened, and if not set us back then at least put it on hold.