The argument could be made (mainly by those who want to take us back to a mythical innocent time of the supposedly recent past) that it's advertisers who've corrupted our culture and changed what's socially acceptable through their manipulations. Or, if you have sold your proverbial soul to the gods of unfettered commerce — like the rightwing self-described Culture Warriors, or the (formerly) Moral (former) Majority — advertisements are the market speaking for the greater culture at large. And the greater culture, funny enough, largely disagrees with the rightwing.
You can think of the market as a leading indicator of our social mores and the Republican primary as a lagging one.
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The GOP-worshipped market has chosen the winner of the culture wars, and it hasn't looked favorably on its most devout.
Of course, the market for Republicans is just like the Bible or the Constitution. They worship it piously as long as they believe it agrees with them.
If their deified market is all-knowing and all-powerful — it clearly favors a progressive social agenda...and not the GOP's.
Go read. The gory details are in between my quotes.
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Well, to me, it seems kinda like the end of segregation in the South. One of the lesser-known things is that national restaurant and hotel chains quietly backed MLK Jr.'s quest to get all those "separate but equal" laws repealed -- for the simple reason that black people have money too, and being forced to give up all that black people money just so a buncha inbred white trash bigots could strut around as if they were real human beings rankled their asses big-time.
Well, now it's the gays, and you think wedding planners ain't gettin' sparkles in their eyes thinkin' bout all them gay marriages? Yeah right. You got money against a buncha inbred bigots, there's only one ending for that story, and the inbred bigots are startin' to get a whiff of that and they ain't happy, ain't happy at all. Well fuck'em. That's all I gotta say to that.
- Badtux the Southern Penguin
Of course, the market for Republicans is just like the Bible or the Constitution. They worship it piously as long as they believe it agrees with them.
Thing is, most of those wingnut clowns haven't read either.
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