Democrats try to ban stoves and gasoline — Republicans ‘start a culture war’ by noticing it
Zachary Faria
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The establishment media guidelines when it comes to “the culture war” are quite simple: Democrats are allowed to do anything they like, and the second Republicans object, they are starting a culture war.
The most recent example of this involves gas-powered cars. In 2022, less than 1% of cars, SUVs, and light-duty trucks were electric vehicles. There are many reasons people might want to keep it that way. Electric vehicles are inefficient and expensive, and even liberal California cannot support its small share of electric vehicles with its current energy grid. And yet President Joe Biden is mandating that two-thirds of all new cars sold in 2032 must be electric vehicles.
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Is it a culture war to force people to buy cars that are more expensive, less efficient, and that they typically do not want? No, because Democrats are the ones doing it. And if Republicans object to this absurd order, daring to say that people should be allowed the option to buy cars they like, that is how the media say the “culture war” starts.
Politico claimed Biden simply wants to “coax” people into buying electric vehicles — as if declaring that they cannot buy other cars were simply “coaxing.” Meanwhile, “Republicans in Congress are already stoking the fires of what could be the next big culture war” by saying that people should have more options to choose from and not less.
We have seen this before, and Politico, in fact, gives away the same strategy. According to that newspaper, Republicans used a “false accusation that Biden was proposing to ban gas stoves.” But the Biden administration was proposing to ban gas stoves — a high-ranking Biden administration official said it on the record. Biden only had to walk it back because Republicans made a big deal of it. And even then, after the furor died down, Biden went ahead with it anyway through a different federal agency, proposing a new rule that would ban the sale of 96% of existing gas stoves.
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But that was not a Democratic culture war, according to our unbiased media. NPR accused Republicans of “using outrage to score clicks and sell books.” Time said that “gas stoves became the latest right-wing cause in the culture wars.” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes called GOP opposition to Democrats dictating life choices to people a “bit” while laying the “gas stove culture war” at the feet of the GOP.
This is how the game always works. Democrats can do whatever they like and ban whatever they like, no matter how intrusive their bans are to people’s daily lives. The “culture war” only starts when Republicans notice and fight back because establishment media agree with Democrats on every decision they make.
Democrats pick most of the fights in our “culture war,” and the media cover for them because they are both fighting for the same goals.