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| Source:U.S. News- the gun control debate is just one issue in what at times looks like the never-ending gun control debate. |
"The battle over sequestration--automatic cuts in federal spending--is dominating the news media today, but that's not what is inflaming political passions around the country.
"The Presidency" column by Ken Walsh appears in U.S. News Weekly on Fridays. Follow his blog, "Ken Walsh's Washington," online at:
I disagree with Ken Walsh here who is someone I like and respect, but the culture wars are similar to the civil war of the 1860s where one side clearly won (meaning the Unionists) but of course paid a heavy price for it. The other side knowing they've already lost but deciding to fight on to see how much damage they can do. Which is why some historians believe that the Unionists won the civil war, but the Confederates won the peace. Meaning there really wasn't much of a peace after the civil war was over with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and other Anglo terrorists groups in this country.
The Cultural War in America is not Liberal vs Conservative (as Ken Walsh said it was) but Left vs Right. And in some cases America vs the Far-Right in America. The country has already spoken on major issues like gun control, climate change, same-sex-marriage, women's place in the world, integration, and immigration, and I'm sure other issues. There's a solid majority of American who are in favor of these issues, with maybe 1/3 of the country fighting to the very last battle to prevent what they see as their traditional America from disappearing.
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