This is why I keep up with phys.org guys
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-debunking-false-beliefs-requires-tackling.html

Here is an odd one–ignore “fake” info about vaccines:
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-refuting-misinformation-head-on-bypassing.html

but…
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-bcg-vaccine-covid-health-workers.html

You can’t see these movies
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-gender-bias-blockbuster-movies-lens.html

Time to weaken you
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-neural-circuit-suppresses-male-aggression.html
ttps://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-young-mice-weeks.html

https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2023/04/28/tucker-carlson-and-the-struggle-for-civilizational-sanity-n2622543?bcid=b4743a2cf400ffae597166b03f245b989f61306e35649f2a19639e78f6515fbf&recip=708661

Citing Tucker Carlson’s recent address to the Heritage Foundation — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32UPXGChgo — Mr. Hammer observes:

“The relevant political and cultural battle lines in the year 2023 are not those befitting a civil and polite discussion where both sides are reasonable, both sides pursue their own version of the common good and the best think tank white paper wins out in the end, Carlson cautioned. No, our current civilizational struggle is not reflective of a refined policy debate between amicable partisans; rather, it is one that implicates fundamentally distinct theological and anthropological visions of mankind — of man’s very biology and his relation with his fellow man, the state and God Himself.”

As he goes on to suggest, the social and cultural fault lines in today’s America are probably deeper than those at the time of the Civil War where both sides still believed in many of the same things. Now, voters in Red and Blue states seem to have little if anything in common, and they hold very different ideas about even such things as whether men can become women (simply by wishing to) or if they live in a “good” country with a Constitution and a system of laws to which they ought to adhere.

The question before us is which vision of the “common good” most Americans now adhere to (and will fight for), and the tragic thing is that The Powers That Be on *both* sides of the partisan divide seem bound and determined that the kind of civilizational debate that Tucker Carlson and Mr. Hammer is talking about will never be allowed to take place.

This belief — again, that it is the government’s obligation to *protect* people from free speech — seems on its way to becoming normative in most university environments, and is just another example of the radical inversion of our formerly prevailing cultural norms that is transforming our country into something that is almost unrecognizable. And, while Ms. DeJong appears to have been vindicated, there would seem to be little hope that the faculty and staff of Southern Illinois University will rethink its position on this issue. At best, they will no longer act against individual dissent in such an open and overtly illegal fashion — it’s now too expensive — but they will go on *teaching* that the tenets of the First Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights are contrary to the new woke conception of a people’s democracy and how a society ought to be ordered.

As others have observed, it is one thing to have a Constitution and Bill of Rights in place, but if a significant portion of the population no longer adheres to the historical and cultural foundations in which these institutions are rooted, then you have created a very different kind of society*. That this is so, and our fundamental institutions are rooted in language, culture, and history, is the thesis of Akhil Reed Amar’s America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By. Similarly, the conservatism of Edmund Burke is grounded in the history of the British Isles and English Common Law, and our collective adherence to such norms would not exist without such a provenance.

*Which was, BTW, precisely the intent of the French Revolution, which now serves as the inspiration and model for our new Jacobins
in Washington.

At the moment, fortunately, the judiciary seems to be holding the line in favor of an originalist interpretation of our Constitution, but there is a rising tide of opposition to their efforts among much of the younger population and, in particular, most of those who live in Blue cities and states. These people do not *want* to live under the old “oppressive” rules, and they have turned to Marx, Stalin, and Joe Biden / Jim Jones as their prophets.

Winning in a one to one, individual fashion is of course very desirable and it is part of the foundation of how our system works, but there is also a *cultural* war to be won, even if far too many people (included elected Republicans) don’t realize that they are in the middle of it.