(08-22-2020, 12:29 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(08-22-2020, 11:04 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: For sure, the left is winning the culture war, but it's been going like that for several decades.  Integration, women's rights, the sexual revolution, gay rights, gay marriage, legalization of marijuana, just to name a few.   These are all cultural changes coming from the left, and it's been happening over a long period of time.

Nice easy answer. That was the truly progressive aim of the party.  Now it's the comply or die treatment from the left. What we see today is not on par with the true struggles for equality in the past, which is to do exactly as they say and approve, or your livelihood and safety are in peril. Trump is right, they're more fascist than the people they accuse.

The earlier victories were enforced too.
Politicians and other public figures who dissented about allowing interracial marriage or ending segregated schools had to repent or be de-platformed long ago.

The right is merely trying to hold its ground in the culture war.  The left is trying to change stuff.  The right wins when they can show that society, as it is, is only making rational and fair distinctions.  The left wins when they make society seem unfair or bigoted.

The marijuana wars still aren't over.  The gay wars have ended with near total victory for the left; conversion therapy is banned for kids in many areas.  The transgender wars are probably bogged down for a while.  I predict a bit of retrogression, where biological males will no longer compete in women's sports, but it's far from over.  There is retrogression on the abortion front, but, that war may never end.  

In my opinion, other than drug laws, it's pretty dumb to change your vote over this stuff.  We seem to elect congressmen and presidents who say the right things, but, the Court decisions don't seem to change.

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