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“Is there not a sense in which programmes like this, while seeking to alert the populace, succeed mainly in paralysing the will?”

Others see it as the Stronach Group, owner of Santa Anita, believing so much in the sport that this type of event will energize the populace and bring much-needed new fans to the sport.

“We must kick in the advocacy as soon as possible to ensure that state agencies and institutions get on board and educate the populace on the expectation that this law carries,” she added.

“This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace,” Vance said.

My second takeaway is that bread and circuses — the Roman phrase for distracting the populace with spectacle — was in full force.