And almost to prove my theories AND Ross Douthat's account, here is Maureen Dowd attacking the conservative judges on the Supreme Court WHILST WHOLLY IGNORING the politico-economic reality that these elite Republican judges are THEMSELVES exploiting these "woke" issues TO MAINTAIN CLASS DIVISIONS!

Here Democratic and Republican elites exploit MORAL beliefs TO MAINTAIN CLASS DIVISIONS!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-puritanism.html

But class conflict, which both US parties wish to conceal behind the "judicial screen" of court-made law (removed from Congress) actually comes back to haunt the American polity!

These same dynamics are playing out in Australia, as is made plain by the current electoral campaign!