Since I'm not on Faceberg or Twatter anymore, I'm only occasionally exposed to culture "wars" news stories via random YouTube videos. I'm thinking it's a bad habit to pay too much attention to this stuff, but it is sort of compelling the same way watching sports is compelling.
For a while, I thought the present-day "clash" (if you can call it that) was unique because of social media, but in a lot of ways its a replay of earlier eras. It seems like left wing groups are perennial millenarian religious zealots, even if their religion is atheism. In an earlier era a figure like Carrie Nation was on a jihad against booze and wouldn't be out of place today with blue hair. Also, the temperance movement of the era was bankrolled by oligarchs of the day and was really a prototype wedge issue.
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