On the other hand, not everyone is as comfortable with unrestrained vulgarity as South Park conservatives are.
One particular group that feels less than joyful when vulgarity is being pumped through their TVs are parents with children at home.
Whether South Park conservatives will get less comfortable with filth as they morph into parents is an open question at this point. But what is certain is that an awful lot of parents out there are not comfortable with the tidal wave of filth that is crushing their children thanks to the crudification of TV, movies, and music in our culture.
That kind of thing can have negative political consequences for you if you’re a political party cozying up to Hollywood and other culture poisoners.
SO SAY ONE DEMOCRAT REGARDING HIS OWN PARTY.
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If the Democratic chieftains in Washington really want a window into why heartland residents are tuning out our party, they should stop huddling with loopy linguists from Berkeley like George Lakoff and just start reading Frank Rich’s commentaries in the New York Times. There they will find a perfect distillation of the arrogance and narrow-mindedness that typifies the cultural thinking of our elites–and turns off red-state voters.
In the view of Mr. Rich and his acolytes, freedom in our culture has been "under attack" ever since 9/11. Indeed, Mr. Rich has argued that this attack is being led by "new Puritans" who want to "stamp out" all that is "joyously vulgar" in American culture and who are fomenting a "government war against indecency" to get the job done.
Once you get past the absurdity of Mr. Rich’s hyperbole–vulgarity, joyous or otherwise, is hardly in retreat–the implications of this mindset and the battle lines it establishes are clear. On one side are the forces of freedom, tolerance, diversity, modernity; on the other those of repression, intolerance, conformity and zealotry. And if you’re not exactly enamored of watching titillating stunts and ads at the Super Bowl with your 6-year-old, you’re part of the TV Taliban.
