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The culture war stuff FOLLOWS from economic depression. Once someone is in the financial dumps, they're already angry, and it's easy to redirect that anger to meaningless culture war stuff.


See 1930s Germany. Even Hitler didn't arise in a vacuum, he gave people an outlet to express their anger at a very real economic disaster.




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