Politics are a sort of fait accompli in the sense that they rest on basic assumptions. Elizabeth Kantor, author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature", mentioned how there are at least seven key questions that liberals and conservatives will differ on:
1) Is human history essentially the story of the liberation of one group after another from prejudice and repression?She said we will lose the cultural war if we lose sight that the wars over abortion and marriage are the tip of the iceberg, which is the pending loss of Western culture (a paraphrase): "We don't learn traditional Western culture by accident or osmosis. High culture is what is behind a lot of what we take for granted as American culture. Which is why our college professors are such a complete disaster. Those are the people that we have trusted to transmit that culture to the next generation. Many actively prevent that culture from being transmitted."
2) Can we anticipate a time of no war?
3) Are the differences between men and women merely a cultural construct?
4) Is crime caused by unjust social structures?
5) Is poverty caused by wealth?
6) Is it acceptable to do evil that good may come from it?
7) Is Christianity a bad influence on humanity?
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