The "culture war[is]as critical to the identity of our nation as the Cold War,
because what is at stake will be the soul of America", declared Pat Buchanan,former pen of Nixon, in 1992. --- - The culture war is the strategy adopted bythe organized conservative movement which emerges in the USA after the war. Itconsists of a mobilization of the middle classes around moral values rather thanmaterial issues, and in particular to make religious conservatism an electoralbase (which it is then not). ---- Initiated by a hunt for "cultural Marxism",this strategy became hegemonic on the American right at the end of the 1970s,when it made abortion a central mobilization issue. ---- This culture war isbeing waged through moral panics, these politico-media campaigns to mobilizepublic opinion around an imaginary or vastly exaggerated and distorted threat.In France, both the right and the far right are increasingly adept at thisstrategy, triumphant across the Atlantic, where it brought Trump to power, endedthe right to abortion and organized the hunt for trans people.They therefore multiply the controversies : on the attire of swimming pool users,the Family Planning posters, or even the threat made to the inalienable right ofFrench women to be picked up in the street... it is always civilization itselfthat is threatened, since what is at stake here too is the soul of France.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Reperages-Culture-war-moral-panic_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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