The United States of America is divided because we are in a Culture War. How many times have I been chided as a “Culture Warrior” since I started writing my thousand plus pieces after 9-11? Well, it’s true. It’s not politics as usual. There’s no common ground unless there is an existential threat to the whole country, like 9-11. We are fighting the Great U.S. Culture War.
I can lay out in chapter and verse the history of how we got here. I can show the divisions – issue by current issue. I can explain how society, culture, civilization, nation-state or other forms of government, sub-cultures, and communities fit and work. But let’s set aside the details that can distract.
Take this quick “Yes or No” quiz. It’ll show you where the division starts. It highlights key differences in two opposing worldviews. The ideas in sharp contrast lead to the irreconcilable differences.
Worldview Litmus Test
- Did Jesus bodily rise from the grave and is He alive today?
- Do your individual rights come from a living God?
- Is the legislature the supreme branch of government?
- Is government designed to preserve private property?
- Do individuals have the right to defend themselves against the government?
- Does government exist to create peace, union, and equality?
- Does government represent the “general will” of the people?
- Does justice come from reason alone?
- Are there group rights for protected classes of persons based on race, ethnicity, language, religion, gender, sexual behavior, or veteran status, etc.?
- Life is a conditional gift from the government – because if it is expedient for the government that you (an unrepentant and irredeemable racist, Homophobe, Transphobe, climate denier, anti-science and non-compliant virus spreader, Islamaphobe, gun nut, anti-choice, Confederate monument supporting white supremacist, misogynist, wealthy, or otherwise unfairly privileged person) should die, you must die.
- Bonus: Did Epstein kill himself?
Answer Code.
1-5. Yes = John Locke. No = Other.
6-10. Yes = Jean-Jacques Rousseau. No = Other.
- No = Other. Yes = Sane.
If you are all “Yes” with John Locke and “No” with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, then you probably share the basic worldview of American Conservatives. Additionally, American Conservatives are quite different from the European “Right.”
If you are “No” with John Locke and “Yes” with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, then your worldview is some stripe of Human Secular Totalitarianism.
If you have mixed Yes and No answers, then more questions could be asked to see how far you lean one way or the other. There are alternatives to Conservative and Human Secular Totalitarian. America isn’t absolutely binary even if the predominant worldviews make the division seem so.
Individual Americans could be Libertarians verging on anarchy, Monarchists, or imaginary countries living on a compound. But, fundamentally the divide in worldview is Conservative vs. Human Secularist Totalitarian.
The 2020 election resolves nothing. Every election will be crucial until the Culture War of Conservatives vs. Human Secular Totalitarians is won.
Conservatives must recapture or create alternative the 7 major institutions which shape culture: Government/military, business, education, media, arts/entertainment, religion, and family.
If we fail to regain our 7 institutions, then our house is fated to be like all divided houses.
Luke 11:17 But He, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, “every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.”
Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”
Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
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Good quiz and good explanations of the philosophies behind them. A mix of responses could also be the basis for Libertarianism.