What do you think about cultural politics?

[La_Serpiente]

Although it may have some faults to its model, I think overall it is somewhat good. How do you stop racism that is directly affecting your group? You have to fight back. I feel it also provides a social support network for those who need it.

[billbuckhead]

1. Republicans are kicking our butt's with it.

The "Southern Strategy". The "Gay Agenda", Wille Horton, etc.

[sweetheart]

2. localism is a dead end

Here we use the ultimate in federalism (internet) to consider segmenting all populations in to tightly defined target segments of concern. Then we can divide all of humanity in to different categories and decide who is and who is not worthy of human being status... sort of how the neocon criminals have decided that all cannabis smokers are terrorists like me, or how all left wing writers are terrorists like me, or how all people who are happy when bush takes a dive are terrorists like me... and for all people like me who secretly pray for all of the neocons to die tonight.

... what we end up with is you being able to define yourself as different from me, and your human rights to be "greater" or "lesser" than mine as well as your claim to those rights greater or lesser... as i have less claim to be "free" because i smoke cannabis.

The truth is that there is one human spirit and many bodys... and that target marketing applied to democracy is purely divisive and empowers nobody.... we are one people in this planet. We love good food, we love our children and we, all 6 billion of us, want to be free. Creating the illusion that a small set of the 6 billion is somehow more related than any other helps personal ego's feel special, but not in a political sense, that is purely divisive and leads to the arrogance exemplified by nader dividing the last election so bush could win. We don't need that again... the idea is bunk.

[HEyHEY]

3. I think it has almost torn Canada up a couple times and could do it again

So, there is good and bad to what it can do.