Insert one of the capitalist’s useful idiots in every discussion basically saying “Well I have food, water, and shelter, so I think my X social issue must be addressed before everyone having food, water, and shelter… or you’re a bigot!” derailing every discussion, as the owner class intends, often devolving into arguments of “we can do both/all” when under this economy, we can’t do shit as the owners will keep using their bully pulpits in for profit media and captured government to actively keep us divided and hating one another instead of looking up. If you think you can do anything under that, you’ll be waiting till your grave.

Class war informs all other wars. Those are all battles under the class war. This is class occupation, with the oligarchs literally owning conflicting networks claiming to be news, claiming their truth is the truth when it’s merely yet another method of profiting off stoking poorie fights in the streets so we aren’t a threat to them.

Ok, but one of those people will assault you if they think you’re using the wrong bathroom.

Fighting a culture war because of collective OCD or whatever keeps us from fighting a class war, but nobody’s doing it on purpose. That’s the weird thing - there’s no agenda, just people behaving similarly because of similar fears, motivations and delusions.

I think somebody could probably figure out how to make Asimov’s psychohistory a real science.