That’s my sense too. I don’t fully understand it, but my best guess is that the generations who fought Culture War I are rerunning CW II as their last stand, and have been successful in drafting younger generations because young people are too atomized to have their own politics
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Which might be good news if true, because in another 5-10 years the CW I generals will have aged out of the picture and can no longer pull the strings. OTOH, then there may be no one left with enough cognitive coherence to keep the machinery of society running. Bad news….
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@Meaningness, but this doesn't strike me as true, especially on the right side. Like, I don't see much sign the moral majority holds much sway now, except maybe with those who were alive for it. Seems like neoconservatism and nationalism trumped(heh) it. -
its an evolution trad remains big
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Weimar Germany had great political teams. The best ever. Lots and lots of them.
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Our current political divide is rooted in the culture war that began with the New Left & hippie counterculture in the 1960s-70s, versus the Evangelical counter-counterculture of the 70s-80s.
To better understand, I wrote a memetic history of that war: