Culture War In American Culture

The “culture war” in American lives is more religious than political as many of us tend to think. What we see reflected in the contemporary voting patterns is simply a restructuring in American religion which has played an undeniable role in the politics of the nation. It has been, currently is, and almost certainly will be an important aspect of our politics. It is this religious obsession that has fueled our century-long “culture war.”
Providing the context within which political beliefs and attitudes exist and can be analyzed, culture is critically important to an understanding of public opinion. Culture is often defined largely by the values that are salient in society at any given point in time. Values, in turn, are defined at the individual level as each person's abstract, general conceptions about the desirable and undesirable end-states of human life. The concept of culture is evidently multifaceted. It leads to the reality where a heterogeneous nation like the United States easily generates a variety of distinct and different value orientations within its population. If these differing value structures imply mutually
Whether we are in the midst of a culture war depends entirely on what one means by the term. “Culture war,” when used in the media or other political platforms, tends to suggest that the state of polarization in American politics closely resembles a war. That is, however, inaccurate and unnecessarily hyperbolic. The term was originally meant to describe “tremendously significant development in American religion, society, and politics. Unfortunately, as we have seen and heard extensively on the media, the term has been used as a distraction in the conversation around what it was really meant to