Debate Now Is the Cultural Paradigm Shifting Along with the Demographic Changes?

[Olde Europe]

However, now that you bring that up, the deepening polarization of the left and right is indeed a cultural paradigm shift. It is amazing that both polar extremes are roughly equal in population but quite at odds with what the countries priorities should be.

A paradigm shift means that the country as a whole (or by its overwhelming majority) changes its philosophical outlook, and thus the direction of its development changes as well.

What we have at the time is something the country went through several times during the last two centuries, namely, a surge in new arrivals, and a reactionary, mouth-breathing insurgency against them. Chinese, Irish, German, Italian, you name it, the waves of xenophobia and nativism arrived and swept over the country with the predictability of the sunrise.

The division is caused by the fact that the Democrats largely keep their calm, even insist that humans be treated as humans. (For the time being I am proud of them and their resisting the prion disease of the brain that befell Republicans.) The GOP is in full nativist mode, helped along by hate-peddling xenophobic outfits like "FAIR" (Orwell is chuckling over that one), and presided over by the wall-building Hater-in-Chief currently squatting in the Oval Office, and his primary henchman, Steven Miller.

Thus I'd say, that's not a paradigm shift, at least not yet, but just another instance of well-known meandering in which part of the country loses its brain, gives their integrity and humanity a solid ass-kicking, and opts for some kind of fascist strongman in order to be saved from the frightening unwashed hordes "invading" the U.S. of A. from the South. They even import toddlers now, the most fearsome of invaders.

Again, near the end of 2020 we'll know more about where the country is heading.