Culture matters

Liberals agree that culture matters; they just want a different kind of culture. If liberals didn’t think that culture was a factor in the success of a nation, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to change ours. Their efforts to strangle Hollywood, to smother politically incorrect speech in academia and to run the media are three examples just off the top of my head. Everybody with a modicum of common sense knows that culture matters.

One needn’t be a reductionist to see that our politics is the result of our other beliefs: it is downstream from culture. America is in trouble not because of some mistake made by the Founding Fathers, some unforeseen development; no, it is a result of culture. It is, without a doubt, our fault.