Is it unusual to believe that Democrats hold certain values dear?
Charles: Yes, because it is widely assumed that Republicans are the “party of values.” This is because Christian Conservatives, the base of the Republican Party, have defined themselves as “moral values voters.” Religion is seen as the only foundation of values. Democrats, of course, have always had values. But they have tended to avoid explicit claims to morality, thus ceding the idea that only Republicans really care about values. And the media has fallen into and propagated this false way of thinking about values. Where did the feminized majority come from? And what was missing from the political landscape at that time that created this feminized majority? Charles: It began to emerge in the 1960s, which represented a sea-change in American values. In the 1950s, the US was thoroughly masculinized in its moral philosophy, embodied in the individualistic and competitive capitalist mantra of “Alone, I Will”. In the sixties, ideas about equality, social change, and community began to cre
