Why is the Government so obsessed with culture war issues?
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I remember when I was a kid it was all about the welfare queens, spending “our hard earned tax dollars.” This has worked for decades getting people riled up about some perceived villain that is somehow ruining our lives even though most (95%) of us never have a problem or are barely affected by these bogeymen.
The way the right uses transgender women in sports to shore up support is almost like an addiction. It seems that every time I turn around they are mentioning it to get across one of their main talking points. It seems that transgender women and immigrants share the number one spot right now. (Vaccines worked during the Pandemic). They use anecdotal stories to push home their messages.
The left does it too. Abortion was a huge one. But it turned out to be founded in reality because the Supreme Court overturned Roe after a 49 year precedent. Now women are dying in states that have restrictive abortion laws.
Fear is a strong motivator and the more someone is exposed to confronting their fears the higher their anxiety gets. Politicians have figured this out, and boy do they use it to their advantage every election cycle. ‘Beware the left want to take away your 2nd Amendment rights’; ‘the Right is going to make America into a Margaret Atwood dystopia.’ The problem with this is that our government has done this so often that they have now become the bogeyman. Fear your government, because they will exploit your fears and make you regret your vote.
Another fear that they seem to throw around is the threat of WW3. I don’t know if this is just a scare tactic but it undermines the whole stockpiling nuclear weapons as a safeguard. Why would they threaten something like this? Russia seems to be a perpetual offender in this threat. Are they trying to tell us that no country should have nuclear weapons because that’s where this threat seems to be going?
I think that using fear to get people to align with your way of thinking is mean-spirited and a bully tactic. We shouldn’t fear our Government or our country. We shouldn’t allow it - this exploitation of our fears. Don’t take a few examples as an epidemic.
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