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>People on both sides of culture war issues really do care about them.

That's the goal of every diversion. Sports fans really care about their teams too (in some cases to the point of mass hysteria, or beating other people over them).

>but the ordering of political priorities is basically subjective and nobody needs share anyone else's.

Not so subjective, since conveniently almost everybody ends up sharing the ordering of one of the two sides they are conditioned to chose among.

That's like saying "fashion is subjective" and then seeing 90% of the people wearing the same shit for the season, "mysteriously" the very thing promoted in fashion magazines and celebrity videos and advertised to death 24/7.