Talk about blaming the boogeyman. The various problems of the West are of the West's own creation. Even the social dislocation that has led to the breakdown of the traditional family structure is just a byproduct of the capitalist system. Industrialization, urbanization and later - suburbanization and the rise of the service economy have logically led to the place we now inhabit. Social conservatives make it sound like some shadowy cabal is plotting the downfall of all that is good and right; rather than chalking the changes up to obvious rearrangement of the social structure. Not every trend or change requires some evil group with an Agenda (capitalized).
This also has no real relevance for 2012. Gay marriage will not decide this election.
So the capitalist system caused both rising divorce rates/out of wedlock births and the homosexual agenda? How is that not totally absurd?
There has been a social agenda since the 1960s that not only was not caused by capitalism but on the contrary by the people most opposed to it.
I think what generic means is that capitalism's emphasis on hard work and earning money has caused the traditional family structure to deteriorate, in that now the woman in the family has to work along with the man, whereas before it was only the man who had to work.
Anyway, the Democrats and the GOP are obviously going to focus on the economy in the 2012 election, unless it miraculously gets better before Election Day, which it won't.
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