[tablespoon]

> Most of the times "fact" wars or "culture" wars are just covert interest wars. Just ask yourself who benefits and how, pull from the string, and most "facts" will just dissolve on a carefully crafted narrative that has nothing to do with the truth and a lot to do with gaining or not losing some type of power.

No, I don't think it's that simple. Take the classic culture war issue: abortion. There's genuine, widespread, and deep opposition to it. The "covert interests" didn't manufacture that opposition, but they have latched onto it to help make unpopular policies (e.g. laissez faire economics, tax cuts for the rich) electorally viable.

[Rury]

I'm afraid I don't follow your reasoning. In your example, isn't the "covert interests" simply: A group of people who is "interested" in having abortions, and a group who's "interested" in preventing abortions?

[Ambolia]

Abortion is a can of worms which combines many underlying power issues, from the obvious issue of personal freedom that usually gets discussed, to the need of capitalism to be able to double the work force[1], to eugenics and demographic control [2], to the most fundamental power issue that is who gets to decide what it means to be human and when does human life start.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/23/18183091/t...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/43208...