Mild Rover wrote:Cheap and effective diversionary tactic by the moneyed/kleptocratic right to keep the poor/angry right poor and angry. A broad church of happy political symbiosis.
It's hard to imagine anyone being played as easily as this. But I know people IRL who are just as easily tricked into culture war ridiculousness as some of our friends on here seem to be - left venting in a red-faced rage about stuff that even they know is absolute trivia.