Fighting the '90s Culture Wars with Grant Morrison's 'The Invisibles'

Pop Matters ^ | July 25, 2019 | Mark Gunter

[OddLane]

Nothing serves as a convenient rallying cry quite like a war. Indeed, to consolidate party spirit for the then-upcoming Presidential election, Pat Buchanan evokes the United States' "victories" in various recent wars in his address to the 1992 Republican National Convention. The US invasion of Grenada in 1983, the US-supported Contra War in Nicaragua in the 1980s, and especially Reagan and Bush winning the Cold War by that decade's end, all serve for Buchanan as exemplars of America's -- read Republican America's -- excellence and essence.

At the time of Buchanan's address, those wars had ostensibly been won; but Buchanan warns that America is in the throes of another battle, with even more at stake, because this war is being fought on the nation's own soil. It is "a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as was the Cold War itself, for this war is for the soul of America" (para. 39), fought on one side by the emergent (and insurgent) culture made up of pro-choicers, supporters of gay marriage, L.A. "mobs" (i.e., people of color), and proponents of "radical feminism" (para. 23); and on the other side by the conservative, essentially white, heteronormative, and cismale dominant culture personified by Buchanan himself...

[Wilhelm Tell]

The left makes up trigger words about groups of people, and then uses these trigger words the way a bigot might use a racial slur. The writer complains about “cismales” - people who were born male and “identify” as male. It is like “cismales” are bad - that very trigger word casts them as something bad. Just like a bigot talking about (racial slur) “those people.” Cismales and cisfemales make up almost all of the population. A very small percentage don’t identify with the “gender” they were born with and thus aren’t cis.

I haven’t read beyond the excerpt. I imagine it is about how America is bad because cis people are seen as the norm and we need an authoritarian socialist state to force the proper “identity” on people. The big thing with the left is that free people generally conform to nature and leftists don’t like that because they don’t believe that things have a nature. Everything must be forced to conform to the leftists’ artificial, ideological constructs, and freedom has to be abolished to be able to do that.