Morrison imported the Red Herring of Culture Wars straight from Trump’s and GOP’s tactics in America and Dutton has done much the same going straight there after the LNP’s loss. The Culture Wars drew attention away from their lack of action on Climate, the Environment and the Economy. The inconvenient truths about how badly they’d been managed.
The more people are fixated on the mainstream culture war, the less likely they are to decide they want to do more challenging things like defund the Pentagon, says Caitlin Johnstone.
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