Posted on 01/28/2017 10:26:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The American coastal elites are living in a different country than they thought and it has a powerful voice in the new president
Donald Trump is an unlikely president. He is also an unlikely cultural warrior. That hasnt stopped him from becoming both.
Besides throwing American politics into a tumult that wont end in the near future, President Trump has reoriented and reinvigorated the American culture war. He has wrenched it away from its decades-long focus on issues related to religion and sexual morality and created another axis around populism and nationalism.
The issues involved in this new culture war anti-elitism, political correctness, immigration, national sovereignty, multiculturalism are every bit as charged as the ones that animated the old one. They involve the symbolically and emotionally fraught questions of how we should live and who we are as a people.
Other advanced countries dont have culture wars quite like the United States. A fight has raged here since the 1970s over such issues as abortion, school prayer, traditional sexual mores, gay rights, religious displays on public property, pornography, graphic content in television shows and movies and school curriculums. The combatants have been, roughly speaking, secular coastal elites on the one hand and a religious heartland on the other....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Q for Lowry: Which “worst instincts” would those be.. ?
I'm in New York, so you are expected to make sacrifices to live up to your true beliefs. It's hard. I used to be a liberal many years ago.
But my heart was never really in it. I've always thought abortion was terribly wrong, which is why I never impregnated her. It seemed like she needed a trophy abortion.
I never wanted any part of that, so I was always careful to take my sperm with me.
Note to men: Take your sperm with you! :)
Fox News @FoxNews 2h2 hours ago
.@JudgeJeanine on Illegal Immigration: 'Law & Order is Back in the West' http://bit.ly/2jFek24
Rich Lowry seems to have forgotten his jihad against Trump during the election. Perhaps he hopes everyone else will do the same.
He and most of his cabinet are taking $1/year in salary.
How’s your honey, 2DV?
Sounds like the wit and wisdom of General Jack D. Ripper. ;-D
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