I think he means the liberal left.

That's the center. Stop helping their brand

yea i figured but it's important for people to know that there's a distinction

You know what he meant with social term, but I agree

The masses are begging for investment!

the real solutions are still using the only option the laboring class can in class conflict: striking, unionization and collectivization.

the past 100 years have entirely been composed of the ruling class obfuscating this fact and every other political position trying to coopt it for further obfuscation.

these stratifications in society aren't by accident or even incidental. they are highly efficient in dividing society in any way except class.

Culture war is just a paper tiger to keep everyone distracted or nauseated from caring about economic issues.

If you’re arguing about the gender of mr potato head or something as ridiculous every week, then there’s no place in the discourse for stuff like inequality of opportunity for black people or trans people.

The culture war is real
One side believes homosexuality and abortion is wrong and the other doesnt for example
No middle ground when it comes to that
Its a new wars of religion

It also reinforces the idea that politics, for most people, is people yelling at each other on CNN. And why would you watch that when something interesting is one channel away.

This is false

Thanks for clearing that up. Keep up the insightful posting.

If Republicans use local government to close every planned parenthood from West Virginia to Utah. While Democrats do nothing but say they believe that women have the right to choose. What is the difference between most people being unable to access abortion and it being outright illegal?

Its gonna happen either way but on one hand you have the state supporting abortion with funding to clinics and on the other the state pushing it underground. At the end of the day its all about who has the power over individual choice, who gets to say whats right and wrong, that imo is what the culture war is about

Which side is more likely to find this video reasonable though

Because your post was totally informative

Anger/Outrage is profitable. "War" is profitable...no matter the kind.

Investment is everything from a new workplace to fixing your potholes. Quite reasonable

Potholes are filled on tax revenue, and the people struggling aren't struggling because it's an old McDonalds or Walmart or Amazon distribution center. Hell, those businesses are more likely to come to places where they are subsidized by the community. All while they pay their employees poverty wages. You can invest in as many businesses as you want, but the profits are funneled up and out of the community all the same.

Fine. I admit I probably got carried away. But investment in new hospitals, youth centres and schools probably isnt an abuse of the term

Investment implies turning a profit. Those things are funded by taxes that businesses skirt.

most culture war stuff is absolute non-sense from a detached standpoint but real "culture" battles are completely inevitable because of the interwoven nature of modern economics and political action to social discourse. what is ridiculous however is grouping culture wars into a left/right dichotomy when it really isn't, and even doing so within the context of the US itself is misleading

no thanks I don't think I'll vote libertarian

and they use identity politics and sjw language to defuse any popular movement

bernie/supporters were suddenly misogynistic/antisemitic/racist

anti-zionism/anti-palestinian genocide is suddenly antisemitism/homophobic/misogynistic

obviously it’s all fueled by the media to their financial benefit; keeping viewers enraged and engaged

but it wouldn’t be as strong without the stagnant 2 party system where if you don’t subscribe to some part of a political platform then you are automatically everything the other part of the binary represents. it’s to the point where socialists are being accused of cryptoconservatism or cryptofascism

like 80% of what’s on cable news is immaterial culture wars and Americans (ppl everywhere really) just eat it up like hogs at the trough. and are just pissed the entire time