Is there really a culture war?

            In the Pew forum debate, Professors Alan Wolfe and James Hunter debate both James Hunter and Alan Wolfe agreed that there is a divide amongst the people of our nation. The major disagreement lies in how influential the divide is in our society and to what extent it affects political decisions. The divide, as suggested by Hunter, affects every single political decision in the United States. More simply, Hunter believes that culture controls politics to an enormous degree. In contrast, Wolfe deems that the culture war is a thing of the past and the very vestige of it that is left over does not have a very large impact on politics. Wolfe perceives that the political division remains at the personal point rather then a national level.

            There is definitely is a cultural war and it does a play a vast role in politics in the United States. As Professor Hunter suggests and that I concur, culture controls politics. The wealthy elite does have much political power and does sway a large portion of voters in the United States. In a strong, two party political system, it is nearly impossible for the two groups to counter and fight one another. Voters are forced to choose between two completely polarized political parties and therefore, they are forced to upheld the party’s beliefs as a whole. Changes in society do not greatly affect the war because we will continuously have no different parties on complete opposite sides of the political spectrum.

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/the-persistence-of-the-culture-war/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101854.html?sid=ST2010052103072

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/01/why-the-culture-war-is-the-wrong-war/304502/?single_page=true