culture war
Noun
Meaning
(rare) A political struggle for control over cultural institutions.
(often in the plural) Conflict between different ideological groups, especially political conflict for cultural dominance between liberals and conservatives in the United States.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.