T-shirt: "Know your enemy. Culture wars distract from corpocracy."

We enjoyed an article called, "America’s culture wars distract from what’s happening beneath them." By Gary Gerstle

America was united in the 1990's neo-liberal order of globalized free market without government interference. Prosperity abounded with full support of both Dems. and Rep.

Since neo-liberalism frowned upon government regulation of private behavior, two different perspectives emerged.  

The  Neo-Victorians felt
the loss of institutions.
They had to gird against the excesses of wealth. Without institutional suport, threatened were their traditions of self-reliance, strong families, and disciplined attitudes toward work, sexuality, and consumption. They found these institutions in enforcement of family roles, like-minded political leaders, and legions of evangelicals.

The other group that emerged were the morals of Cosmopolitanism.

It saw in market freedom an opportunity to fashion a self or identity that was free of tradition, inheritance, and prescribed social roles. This moral perspective drew energy from liberation movements,   black power, feminism, multiculturalism, and gay pride among them.

Cosmopolitanism was egalitarian and pluralistic. It rejected the notion that the patriarchal, heterosexual family should be celebrated as the norm.

Neo-Victorians  and Cosmopolitan
fought each other in a series of battles that became known as the “culture wars”.

The cosmopolitans attacked neo-Victorians for discriminating against gay people, feminists, and immigrants, and for stigmatizing the black poor for their so-called “culture of poverty”.

The neo-Victorians attacked the cosmopolitans for tolerating virtually any lifestyle, for excusing what they deemed to be deplorable behavior as an exercise in the toleration of difference, and for showing a higher regard for foreign cultures than for America’s own.

American public attention focuses on  irredeemably divisions: vaccination, abortion, critical race theory, and whether Donald Trump should be lauded as an American hero or jailed for acts of treason.

Yet beneath this cauldren are the dangers of concentrated corporate power and the “tyranny of high tech”. It's important to look beyond and beneath the culture wars for clues as to where American politics and society might stolen away from the interest of the people. We must know the true enemy -corpocracy.

Perfect gift to recruit people to demand our political nominations to not get distracted by cultural issues.

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