Can the GOP Win the Culture ‘War?’

I always thought that the Democrat(ic) Party was basically an offshoot of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and the Republic(an) Party represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Let’s face it — in a country with a yearly GDP of some $25 trillion based on a so-called free market economy, the government should attempt to strike a balance between the needs of workers on the one hand, and the needs of owners on the other.

In that regard, however, both parties have lately been defining themselves and their goals in terms of something called woke or anti-woke, which means that you either care about women who used to be men taking a piss in a lady’s bathroom or you don’t. Which is I guess what you do when a political campaign begins to take shape at a time when the unemployment rate is under 4% and American troops outside our borders are being used to guard embassy gates.

But what I find interesting in the attempt by the GOP to make a political issue out of transgender stuff is that the alt-right bunch doesn’t seem to have any memory of what happened the first time that someone tried to make a big deal out of sexual or gender preferences — I’m referring to the anti-gay campaign concocted in 1977 by Anita Bryant who got all hot and bothered when Dade County passed a local ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation which Bryant felt would…