I believe that in
modern America there is a difference in opinion, because I feel that the term
culture war blows the situation out of proportion. The reason that today’s
arguments seem to be a “war” is that through the internet there is now a large
medium for the super left wing and super right wing people to ramble of about
whatever issue the wish to discuss with relative anonymity. No matter what, we
are always going to have two extreme opinions with a majority of the people
being moderates stuck in the middle. The people who do consider this a war are
usually the people trying to defend traditional beliefs while on the other side
the people pushing for progress and modernization tend to not see a war but
common sense reforms. Also with modern political parties having such broad
platforms many people are sucked into one of the two sides in our glorious two
party system. This is because there is no room in our two party system for
single issue third parties and when one becomes successful their ideas are
sucked up by one side or another. The members of that third party either join
one of the two big parties or have no vote. To me the irony of the whole idea
of “is there a culture war?” is that it has sparked a war of its own.
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