Politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart once said.
Next, the conservative media outrage machine gets to work, providing the latest expression of cultural wokeism with exactly what it wants: wall-to-wall attention. By furiously churning out content, conservative social media becomes alight with the very content conservatives supposedly abhor.
Both sides get attention, and both sides reap the financial rewards. Nothing changes, and then it’s on to the next target of outrage as both sides get the attention they want. But have we crossed the line from calling out specific and serious ideological assaults on our culture to piggybacking financially on every viral story that comes across our path? Especially when we remember the financial incentive of modern political commentary: Clicks are king.
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