@Kalshann @anolandria This is why the Left/Right divide is so important and has been stoked up so vigorously.

If we're divided between gender theory and prayer in schools, we are not voting 60/40 for our bottom line interests.

Which we should be.

@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria Bottom line interests include civil rights like freedom of and from religion, personal privacy, and bodily autonomy.

The correct reaction to the rich and powerful destroying daily life for the majority is not to cede defense of civil rights to fight for economic justice; rather, to defend said rights is to engage in economic justice.

@WhiteCatTamer @Kalshann @anolandria The division I am talking about is the one where if you are in favor of thing A you are supposed to oppose thing B and vice versa.

The rich have divided "rights" into to mutually hostile packages and want to force people to choose.

@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria No, civil rights are a whole package for the left. No one who is in favor of bodily autonomy and trans rights is in favor of forced prayer in schools.

People can pray in schools. That violates no one’s rights. What DOES is FORCED prayer, and that’s what the “prayer in schools” advocates want. They want FEWER rights.

@WhiteCatTamer @Kalshann @anolandria And while we're disputing that stuff, the billionaires have created enough new printed money to take all of the new wealth for themselves.

Obvious example is abortion. Everyone thought that was settled, until they needed a wedge. Then it got un-settled.

Which was the purpose of the Culture War all along. They DGAF about trans rights or prayer (except for the ones who are into occult stuff, I guess that's a form of prayer.) They do want all the wealth.

@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria Again, you have it backwards. We need economic justice in order to protect civil rights, and strong civil rights enable seeking economic justice.

That billionaires rile up conservatives and “””moderates””” does not mean we can make concessions on civil rights. That kind of calculus is EXACTLY what they want.