Comment by PaulHoule

(1) The relationship between economic and cultural issues has been the most controversial topic on the left since the 1970s. If you take Marxism seriously, for instance, cultural issues are very much a distraction from class conflict. In the 1980s many of us thought Reagan had pulled off a major gambit by prioritizing cultural issues like abortion to turn voters against social democracy. (Look at Thatcher in the UK for something that problematizes that opinion)

Today writers like Catherine Liu and Joan Williams will tell you all about how movements grounded in the “professional managerial class” fall flat with the working class.

In general viable political movements need something that appeals to people with money and something that appeals more broadly.

(2) These conflicts can be seen as often being zero sum conflicts over irreconcilable values and whether or not rational thought applies is beyond the point. E.g. if you think abortion is wrong you think abortion is wrong.

(3) The basic mistake people I think is that people look at causes through the same framework when in reality these are all different and if you try to treat them as the same… you lose people and in the end you lose.