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>>>>Politics, on the other hand, has no problem influencing culture whenever it feels like, and not for reasons of general prosperity but to further its own agenda. So leaving the culture on the side means giving the politics a free hand there.
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>>>Sooner or later politics mirrors the culture it represents.
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>>uhh huh -- yeah it SHOULD ... but in some cases you end up with a nitwit like Jeff Sessions that insists on moving things backwards, not forwards.
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>Labeling political things with directions as embolded IMO is bad practice. Usually it implies that forward is better, resulting in automatics like more bureocracy, even higher percentage of social spending than the ridiculous slice of the cake reached here and encroaching loss of liberty, freedom to battle against terrorism, child pornography or IP theft.

It's always forward for the speaker. One always needs to take the speaker's orientation into account, to understand the direction he has in mind. It's most probably not the same as the listener's.