On FR the blank is filled in with Nietzsche, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Gramsci, George, etc.
I have an anthropologist friend who can make a good case that everything started going off the tracks when humans invented agriculture.
So we've been screwed since the get-go.
No one had to line up behind Nietzsche, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Gramsci, George, Dr. Spock, Sanger, etc. Lots of people did and lots of people didn't.
Conservatives and libertarians are currently losing the intellectual battle for several reasons, the least of which is the arguments someone made over a hundred years ago.
I take issue with this statement. We aren't losing any intellectual battles, we are losing each and every emotional battle, because that is the ground upon which this current war is being fought.
The Left controls the airwaves, and every argument they put forth is some sort of emotional appeal. They never argue facts, they only argue emotion.