Is Politics Downstream From Culture?


 By Shane Vander Hart - Posted at Caffeinated Thoughts:


“Politics is downstream from culture.”

Author and researcher Don Eberly is credited for first writing that statement over 20 years ago, but it’s a sentiment that has been around much longer.

Is it true? It’s complicated.

Historically, any significant legislation or court opinion has almost always been preceded by a social movement that moved the needle.

Before the Declaration of Independence was signed, pamphlets, protests, and preachers called for freedom from King George’s tyrannical rule of the American colonies. Before the abolishment of slavery, there was an abolitionist movement that gained traction. There was a Civil Rights Movement before there was a Civil Rights Act.

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