Word: egalitarian
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...Actually, the one thing we all have in common is our style," says Ken Salazar. The new Rocky Mountain Democrats are populist, unpretentious, egalitarian and tough. They tend to be avid hunters and fishermen. (I was with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer one day when he reached into his pocket for a pen and pulled out a 30.06 rifle bullet.) A surprising number of them have backgrounds in law enforcement. Of the Democrats who have been elected Governors in the all-blue stripe of states running from Montana to New Mexico, only Bill Richardson of New Mexico has spent any time...
Stern says the egalitarian nature of the process has been exciting. “The cast has been incredible as collaborators on this journey,” he says...
...schools in the U.S. are co-educational. Historically, the justification had more to do with economic sensibilities than educational philosophies. It was cheaper, and perhaps more efficient, to make schools for males and females together. Once people accepted the (once radical) notion that girls had brains, it was even egalitarian to educate the two sexes in the same classroom with the same teacher...
This gave me pause, because it made me realize that I, too, would probably never vote for a Mormon or a Muslim presidential candidate. Being thoroughly inculcated in egalitarian values, this epiphany made me somewhat queasy at first. But I’ve come to embrace my scarlet letter. Why, after all, would I choose to vote for a person who subscribes to some ideas that I might find deeply disagreeable—just to attire myself in the self-congratulatory virtue of tolerance...
...least one day a week, the “People’s House” will no longer live up to its egalitarian moniker...