@Moon Around 2012 I believe you had a huge uptick in culture war bullshit in the media. People blame it at elites being scared of Occupy Wallstreet, but I think elites don't give a shit.
Like you said though, culture war bs has been going on for a long time, it's just now on overdrive. Even in the 00s you had people whining about "racism" in RE5 or Kane and Lynch game.
@matrix
There's getting the plane off the runway, and then there's setting off rockets to escape orbit.
The other fitting explanation is the right getting *so* pissed over 2008 that *they* kicked off the culture war. I said in 2015 that Trump will almost certainly win because a large number of his votes aren't votes for him, but a "punishment" for electing Obama.
So really, pick your poison. Occam's razor suggests the rich got spooked. You should see some of the provocateurs that were sitting in the IRC channels for the occupy stuff. FBI also crawled up my ass for hosting those channels.
@Moon