Seriously, who cares?

[Hortensis]

24. Culture warring is a national bonfire grown and weaponized to overthrow democracy.

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I think it's a mistake to be distracted from the bigger picture of what's happening because what's caused a third of American adults to run around with their hair on fire seem foolish to most people.

This isn't just the normal, angry, fearful backlash from people who've been on the losing side of cultural changes all their lives. That's been fanned into rage and organized and targeted against our governments, and the things you mention are whatever additional fuel RW plotters can come up with to throw on the conflagration. "Pronouns."

Add in their angry, aggrieved, radicalized counterparts on the left who've been lead to believe "the establishment" and its capitalist masters are the root of all problems (and the plotters absolutely do!), and that's a whole lot of people who think their answer is to destroy the democracy that keeps them from imposing their beliefs on the far larger but divided-we-fall majorities who assume they're too foolish and few to prevail.

Putin for just one has been very successfully weaponizing hostile populist movements energized by developing massive, angry grievance to take down foreign governments. Not to focus only on the "enemies foreign" busy busily fomenting this. Our "enemies domestic" by themselves would have had enormous successes using the same techniques of creating, inflaming and focusing the various resentments of this era.

Once again, a great battle to save our liberal democracy is on.