I'm starting to get snarly about the "#distraction" thing with people I have no desire to alienate. So I'll just copy and paste my comments on a friend's post, and leave it at that:

"I do not believe the #culture #war is meant as a distraction. It is meant to accomplish its own whole set of goals, which exist alongside the #economic ones. The right wants to enrich itself by starving poor people *and* run out or kill off everyone who doesn't check all their #demographic boxes. These goals are not mutually exclusive, and neither is a distraction from the other.

"I'm a straight white male native-born middle-aged middle-class veteran: the economic axe will probably fall on my neck before the demographic one does. But I am very well aware that for a lot of other people, including some members of my family and close friends, it's the other way around. So there's really no way to make the d-word more palatable IMO."