Assigning Credit and Blame

SOMEONE RECENRLY TOLD ME, in no uncertain terms, that it was the conservatives who started the culture war. Either way, I don't care. I'm sure good arguments could be constructed for either argument. Hell, its just history. In all societies, change,to a point, is inevitable. The progressives constantly advocate for progress, change, and the conservatives always resist it. But it always comes, at one pace or another. Advocacy for change, opposition to the status quo, can easily be regarded as an attack on tradition, as starting a culural "war". Reacting strongly against change can just as easily be regarded as hostility towards inevitable progress, as a declaration of war against progress, so, there you go. But one thing you can always say about any culture war, about any social dynamic involving advocacy of change and opposition to change, is that, in the long run, progress always wins. No human civilization has ever contradicted this "law of nature", and probably none ever will. Change will be with us forever. In that sense, the progressive point of view will always prevail, and its opponents will probably always complain that the change is not a good thing for society. Yesterday I heard on the news about a pro LGBTQ rights demonstration somewhere, with an anti-LGBTQ demonstration simultaneously across the street. Some violence erupted. That's all I know aobut it, but its enough. The news item is a microcosm of our current American culture war. And if you don't think the progressive side, the side fighting for equal rights for LGBTQ people are going to win, think again. Its inevitable, because what they are fighting for, equailty, is the sacred ideal of our soceity, even though we blatantly disregard it in every nook and cranny of America, and always have. Equailty, social, legal, of opportunity, is our rallying cry in America, and that's the side the gay folks and trans folks are on. The conservatives are on the side of tradition, as always, and on the side of gays and transgenders going away, getting back in te closet, or better yet, reforming, renouncing their non heterosexual sexuality, as if that can be done with the flip of a mental switch. Heads up: the "culture" war will last however long it takes to gain equality for gay and trans folks, and not one solitary second less. As they say: "Deal with it".