In America and Britain, the “tradition wars” are fuelling hatred and division. Arguments over racial justice, transgender rights, abortion and different political and social points have gotten extra polarised. Sociologists speak of “affective polarisation”, the place one aspect is pushed by an intuition to defeat the opposite. This movie seems at a few of the underlying components driving this tribalism. It asks what the tradition wars imply for democracy, and the way involved try to be.
