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To: Cowboy Bob

Nope.

We can’t change the schools till we change the culture.

Culture is upstream of politics. The recent ruling is the working out in the legal system of what was portrayed as normal and desirable 15 or 20 years ago in pop culture.

So if you want to know where our politics will be in 15 or 20 years, look at pop culture today.

Recent polls indicate ~60% approval among Americans for gay marriage. Presumably they will all support this ruling.

Another 10% minimum don’t know or don’t care. This means at most 30% are strongly opposed.

How exactly, in a democratic society, does 30% of the population go about imposing its values on the rest? They don’t. The only way is to get them to change their minds back.

Which is not impossible, but will be very, very difficult. Conservatives have to date not had the stomach for the long, slow grind of influencing a culture over time. We’ve preferred the “quick fixes” of laws and referenda.

That worked well, didn’t it?


15 posted on 06/28/2015 3:06:56 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
Conservatives have to date not had the stomach for the long, slow grind of influencing a culture over time. We’ve preferred the “quick fixes” of laws and referenda.

After all, we've more important things to worry with. Like who'll win the NCAA football championship, the Super Bowl, and so forth. Bread and circuses.

17 posted on 06/28/2015 3:29:58 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Sherman Logan

Problem is the conservatives only control about 10% of the media and probably less than 2% of homowood productions.


25 posted on 06/28/2015 4:15:15 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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