http://wapo.st/1s5c5oC by @JonHaidt #10: Boomers especially polarized. Theory: Boomer right also a counterculture, v similar to hippie one.
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The Moral Majority’s program was structurally identical: heal the ethical decay of mainstream with more-sincere eternalistic alternative.
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The hippie counterculture and Moral Majority were both universalist, where the 80s/90s subcultures were tribal, exclusivist.
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Both countercultures were attempts to rescue eternalism from the threat of nihilism, so not surprising both used Romantic strategies.
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Particularly, the stance of romantic rebellion, so Boomer right & left both FIGHT THE POWER of a mainstream that hasn’t existed since 1980.
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Catastrophically, striking Romantic rebellious poses is not a workable basis for government. Someone has to actually get something done.
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