People talk about "bread and circuses" being used as a distraction but the non-ending rancor over dumb shit has to be itself a bread and circus distracting from other issues.
Relevant:
That divide, is also why the U.S. was made as a representative, democratic republic with a separation of powers not just between the branches of the federal government, but also of different territories. So that people could have their political differences and needs represented on a local level despite being a part of a larger nation with people who might have a wildly different culture/political ideology than they do.
Which, because over the course of 200+ years we now have a strong, centralized government with more or less absolute power over the state governments, means that whoever controls the central pillar of power gets to enforce their bullshit on everyone else.
Part of the circus is people who are obsessed with governing the lives of people who live in another state dozens and hundreds in some cases of miles away from them. Which helps to feed into the cycle of centralization of government that has led us as a nation to the point that the federal government has enough power to be a unilateral controller of every aspect of our society.
I don't know what the answer to the problem is, and perhaps there isn't one, but the problem definitely is one of a mindset that seems ever more prevalent as time has marched forward that not only must every single person live according to one's own personal values if they're in the same nation, but also that the government must be centralized even further to accomplish this.
As far as "actual issues" go to any one person what they consider most important will always vary. Consider:
Not that I don't think certain things complained about are bad, I don't like the trooning of children for one, but no body focuses on the more important underlying macro issues such as the middle class being destroyed and entire career fields being eliminated due to technology.
On this the argument could be made that the genderspecial bullshit is actually an attack on the family unit which is a cornerstone of a strong middle class. That it ultimately helps to erode the foundational unit, the family, that enables people to avoid the various pitfalls that can lead to poverty.
I don't really have an opinion on that so directly as I don't really view issues like this as separate, personally, but people can wrangle rationale out of nowhere for their pet issues being "more important".
I think the people there are more pro-censorship than what the people claim to believe in the censored platforms, which is fucking crazy.
Because - and this is what I'm tired of to the point of wanting to participate less and less in any fucking political discussion whatsoever - there's seemingly no divesting a large number of people both right and left wing of the notion that the government is ultimately the answer to all of society's problems. That we need to have niggers with truncheons, guns, and iron bracelets backing every single solution to any and all problems whether they be cultural, economic, or legal.
That's what I'm tired of, this bullshit that I've run into everywhere of the answers always boiling down to, left or right, "the problem isn't the current structure at all, in fact we just need to not only be in control of it
but enhance its power in order to accomplish our goals". That's what's fake and gay. That's what's tiring. The largest representatives in the body politic right now of the left
and the right want more government, just
their totalitarian and iron-fisted government.
"Real
communism socialism social engineering has never been tried!"