You don't think that the culture war issues are manufactured to distract the masses from endless war, tax cuts, corporate subsidies, etc?

I think that the government has been sabotaged. Intentionally impairing it's functions to justify the critiques of functionally.

"I want to make the government small enough to drown in a tub"

"Government doesn't work, elect me and I'll prove it"(that one's a joke but conveys the point)