Ironically it was last year on the instapundit site that one of the bloggers posted “when did we win the culture war?”, noting that it was the religious right in the 80s that had been promoting the removal of sex and radical ideas from the media and the left had constantly castigated them and called for free speech and... now... the left is effectively the religious right with me too and the removal of women as sex objects
The left won the culture war when when the right failed to offer anything to Gen X and Y, and mindlessly attacked anything that managed to hold a kid's attention longer than the bible.
This might not be so bad if most humans could really handle the nihilism of being truly atheistic, but they can't. They NEED a higher power. They NEED to imagine a just cause. They desperately require some kind of path.
And so they have replaced religion with politics.
Just like when learners of a new language imperfectly speak their new tongue with parts of the grammatical structure of their old one, these worshippers of politics unconciously imprint their old religion onto their new one.
It's impossible to look at woke politics and not see how very Catholic it all is. Right down to the kiddy-fiddling priests.
It seems that there's always been that element on the left too. Tipper Gore founded the Parents Music Resource Center. Hillary Clinton introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act and its co-sponsors were all Democrats.
Ironically it was last year on the instapundit site that one of the bloggers posted “when did we win the culture war?”, noting that it was the religious right in the 80s that had been promoting the removal of sex and radical ideas from the media and the left had constantly castigated them and called for free speech and... now... the left is effectively the religious right with me too and the removal of women as sex objects
The left won the culture war when when the right failed to offer anything to Gen X and Y, and mindlessly attacked anything that managed to hold a kid's attention longer than the bible.
This might not be so bad if most humans could really handle the nihilism of being truly atheistic, but they can't. They NEED a higher power. They NEED to imagine a just cause. They desperately require some kind of path.
And so they have replaced religion with politics.
Just like when learners of a new language imperfectly speak their new tongue with parts of the grammatical structure of their old one, these worshippers of politics unconciously imprint their old religion onto their new one.
It's impossible to look at woke politics and not see how very Catholic it all is. Right down to the kiddy-fiddling priests.
It seems that there's always been that element on the left too. Tipper Gore founded the Parents Music Resource Center. Hillary Clinton introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act and its co-sponsors were all Democrats.