The Culture War's Decisive Battle Has Begun--American Thinker

(American Thinker): "Unexpectedly -- perhaps even astonishingly -- this year's presidential campaign is shaping up as the decisive battle in the Culture War that's been tearing apart our country for decades.

• On one side are the Traditionalists....

On the other side of this culture war are the Left-Wing Liberals. They are uncomfortable with our traditions, with the inevitable inequalities of our free-market economy, and with our military power. They dislike our values, our morality, and our unabashed displays of patriotism. At first -- back in the 1960s -- they were content merely to develop and pursue their own radical culture within ours....

So great is this gulf between the Traditionalists and the Left-Wing Liberals -- and so irreconcilable are the differences -- that our decades-long political struggle has amounted to a kind of second Civil War.

• And for several years now, it's been a stalemate.

• This is why so many elections are so close, why so many Supreme Court decisions are split 5-4,

and why we've been unable to act decisively on any of the issues that confront us - the war, the economy, energy, healthcare, border control, immigration, and all the rest.

• One way or the other, the Culture War's stalemate is about to be broken....

By choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate -- and by staking his own claim to the presidency on "Country First" more than on any specific policy initiative -- John McCain has thrown the switch and put us

• Traditionalists onto the offense.

• By doing so he has unleashed the energy and the will to victory among Traditionalists that have been dormant for so long

• the Left-Wing Liberals mistakenly assumed we'd lost....

• As a result, what started out as a typical campaign between Republicans and Democrats -- each party trying to hold its base while attracting enough independent voters to win --

• has exploded into the Culture War's decisive battle"...

This can change baseball for the better. Doug Pappas made a difference by speaking up against corrupt powers. Today no one with significant authority will do that. A change in America's culture of passivity may bring someone with the courage to pick up where Doug Pappas left off. (sm) via Lucianne.com

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