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             battle front is not able to be identified so clearly. However, artillery
             shells and bombing runs can be heard every day in the marketplace as
             parties fight for public victory over public opinion. The traditionally
             dominated major news outlets, which night after night point out what they
             feel is wrong with America and our national priorities, have controlled a
             majority over opinion generation in the public marketplace for decades.
             Slowly growing is a counter insurgence on the opposing front. These
             individuals are proud of our nation, our heritage, and they take offense to
             powers which would redefine America's greatness as that of an imperial
             power which takes advantage of other nations.
             While the political vantage points can be broadly understood as
             conservative and liberal, the culture war reaches farther than these
             overworked poetical rallying cries. The culture war can be seen in
             America's schools. One side works to make children feel good about their
             effort, in hopes that good feelings will be the motivation for students to
             apply themselves to the hard work of becoming educated, thoughtful
             citizens. The other side insists that students be taught to feel good
             about achievement, and seek to set high academic goals as the goal of
             education. They believe that an educated child will feel good about his or
             her accomplishment, and thereby will become an engaged citizen.
             In the political arena, one side of the war insists that Governments
             responsibility is to provide services which aid citizens financially
             through ever increasing social programs. The weak are taught to feel at
             odds with the strong, as the government increases the amount of wealth they
             transfer through social agency. The other side understands that government
             encroachment into the lives of its citizens is the path away from freedom,
             and toward an overly oppressive government. Thus growing social pr...