Re: The Culture Wars
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2026 1:40 pm
Unless I am mistaken, it seems to me that this Trump Era — a Republican, and really generally a “White” demographic cultural uprising (?) simply cannot turn out well. Possibly because Donald Trump is not the right man. But what would or could this ‘right man’ do? Demographically it is no longer America, as America was fifty years ago, and if “demography is destiny” it is eventually the Democrat regime that will gain power. What then?
Is there now a new “ruling class” in America? Once, 50-75 years back, it was a Protestant East Coast elite, no? Was Ronald Reagan the last warrior of that class? Clearly there is now “decline” on many levels. Bad management? The negative result of deliberate transformation of the Nation into a multicultural Walmart? That is to say far less a ‘nation’ and more a ‘corporation’. The US is sort of a giant ‘property’ in the sense that Google, Facebook and Amazon are properties and are managed as such.
So here is one thing: Describe to me “American identity” now: social and cultural commitment being what exactly? What is to root for? What is to live — and die — for?
So with all this in mind, what then are The Culture Wars? They pale to a degree when, and if, decline of the health and wealth of the nation is considered. There is no “rah-rah spirit” of a genuine nature that will arise. There are only (perhaps) the rhetorical spectacle of half-time contrived patriotism.
That is a dreary view but I must admit it is the view I have.
Is there now a new “ruling class” in America? Once, 50-75 years back, it was a Protestant East Coast elite, no? Was Ronald Reagan the last warrior of that class? Clearly there is now “decline” on many levels. Bad management? The negative result of deliberate transformation of the Nation into a multicultural Walmart? That is to say far less a ‘nation’ and more a ‘corporation’. The US is sort of a giant ‘property’ in the sense that Google, Facebook and Amazon are properties and are managed as such.
So here is one thing: Describe to me “American identity” now: social and cultural commitment being what exactly? What is to root for? What is to live — and die — for?
So with all this in mind, what then are The Culture Wars? They pale to a degree when, and if, decline of the health and wealth of the nation is considered. There is no “rah-rah spirit” of a genuine nature that will arise. There are only (perhaps) the rhetorical spectacle of half-time contrived patriotism.
That is a dreary view but I must admit it is the view I have.