[The United States’ electorate is largely divided into three separate groups:] traditionalists, cultural creative people and the moderns.

Traditionalists [the group drawn to Palin] are the people who don’t want change, they’re afraid of change therefore they have anger—the fear card is a very big powerful card and when you have people afraid of change; they’ll do anything to prevent it.

They’re doing it because they’re limited, frightened of people who are not as limited. I think Sarah Palin, part of her strength is how limited she is.

As we’ve learned so many times throughout history, silence is complicity and defensiveness is ideological endorsement. We are now learning that lesson today.

When, for instance, Sarah Palin responds to the shooting by scrubbing her website but not by apologizing for her violent imagery aimed at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, that simultaneously says she knows she may be partially responsible for violent culture, but unwilling to state that publicly so as to change that culture.