The culture wars are not organic. They were inflicted on us in a systematic way by powerful monied elites who simultaneously and systematically censored dissent to the official narratives. They did this to distract us and pit us against each other, as Dave Smith explains:
Go track how many times the word racism was mentioned. Around 2012 it shoots up. “Social justice” shoots up. Transgenderism shoots up, white privilege shoots up. This was forced on the American people. Why are we having these conversations now? The people did not wake up one day and decide we want to have a national conversation about chicks with dicks. That didn’t happen. This wasn’t an organic movement.
It was all of the most powerful people decided this is what we’re going to talk about. And why was that? Look, when you’re failing on policy, you pivot to a culture war. You pit people against each other, so they’re fighting each other. We had in this country, we had an Occupy Wall Street movement where leftists were standing outside of big banks, screaming, we are the 99% right wingers had a populist movement called the Tea Party, where they were outraged about the bailouts of big banks, unsustainable debt, government spending. They all like that. That’s not what the powers that be like. Look, they like you fighting about issues like abortion. Now, I’m not saying abortion isn’t a very important issue. It’s a very important issue. But us fighting about that issue doesn’t scare anyone at the Federal Reserve. It doesn’t scare anyone in the CIA. They don’t care if you fight about that issue. They love you fighting over transgender bathrooms.
