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The Problem Is We Think We Have Time For A Culture War

Culture wars are great for promoting fear, uncertainty, and doubt. FUD obscures our common ground.

ScottCDunn
4 min readJun 2, 2022

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As a thought experiment, imagine that one day, conservatives get their wish.

In this dystopian fantasy, conservatives dominate the media, the Congress, and the Statehouses in every state. There would be no room for dissent, despite conservatives’ professed love for the filibuster. In this alternative reality, the lefties have been vanquished.

Does anybody really believe that America would be a better place if conservative power was left unchecked by any other forces?

This is the question that continually comes to my mind when I see the venom and vitriol that conservates continually emit at liberals (and in the other direction, but for now just consider this one). Conservatives love to tell us that liberals are wrong because the government doesn’t produce anything of value.

What they don’t tell us is that the point of government is to distribute the risks that we all face. The purpose of government is not to be used so that one party can impose risks upon one helpless class, faction, or demographic while holding themselves harmless. Private the profits, socialize the risk.

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