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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: slacker711 who wrote (84584)9/15/2008 1:30:10 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 541183
 
When talking about the culture wars, I am talking about access to abortion, gay rights, censorship of sex or violence in the media, religion in schools, and the rest of the values issues..

You're looking at the political progression of change. The behavioral progression is not the same thing. There's a political war and a street-level war. For example, nudity may be more or less prevalent in the culture independent of any successes on the political front to change portrayals via increasing or reducing censorship in the media. Censorship might be increasing via law while nudity is declining. It might also be increasing by law while nudity is increasing. The culture is not necessarily affected by political changes and, when it is, they might not move in the same direction.

It seems to me that the street-level culture war is resolving toward the liberal and that the political war is petty much at a standstill.
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