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Neither Dutschke's assassin nor the local CDU campaigners were Axel Springer :-) In the sixties, there was definitely a culture war all over the West, in West Germany, Axel Springer and his papers were propagandists in it, not lone players.
I disagree with your narrow definition of the American cultural war as Christian fundies vs. everyone else. The a broader and long-time conflict trhat involved the civil rights movement, Roe vs. Wade, gun control, economics, entertainment etc., and roughly maps to liberal vs. conservative, is often called culture war. If you check Wikipedia, they describe different interpretations of a wider culture war. As it happens, Pat Buchanan himself features prominently in the article as a cultural warrior. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
As for your second point, I guess you again correct an oversimplification of mine. There are indeed different fronts in the culture war in America, or different culture wars. What I was trying to say is that the nature of one of the American culture wars is different from anything that is likely to arise in Europe, since the essence of fundamentalism is the rejection of rationality. That is something that simply cannot be accomodated. A bomb, H bomb, Minuteman / The names get more attractive / The decisions are made by NATO / The press call it British opinion -- The Three Johns
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