I disagree with this. A robust economy would be good for making everyone's life better, especially the poor, but it's not going to end the culture wars. As Hofstadter noted long ago, culture wars thrive in good times (1920s, 1960s) more than hard times (1930s). https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1365062940324483072 …
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The problem is exacerbated by politicians who see creation of single-issue voters as a route to power.
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No amount of shared prosperity will end culture wars. Many of the warriors would choose grievances over material betterment.
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I'd argue that fundamentally conservatives are opposed to democracy, so as long as we have democratic governance rather than a feudal system, cons will continue to invent reasons to agitate against it.
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idk. I think it goes back to the bargain liberals struck with the old conservative establishment. Even in France, where they(correctly) killed most of them, they eventually invited them back at the behest of the aristocratic&mixed-democratic regimes surrounding them.
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(obvsl "eventually invited" drastically cleans up the process whereby those conservative regimes fought bloody wars against france for years to reimpose the old regime. And then there's the Napoleonic monarchy that pressure help ed create, of course)
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