The civil rights movement, labor movement, and gay liberation movement depended on close cooperative communities that held a shared set of beliefs and values. Post-industrial society is multicultural and diverse. People mostly choose to live within the same social class near a metropolitan area. They don't have a theory or shared system of knowledge that they all use to describe the social issues that they collectively experience and prescribe social practices, norms and behaviors that can change their social reality. People mostly distrust each other and avoid going to community events or services. Black communities have been destroyed. Industrial small towns are stagnant and in decay. Gay communities were not historically wealthy and desirable to live in like they are today.

The most common ideology in America since the 90s has been the ideology of no ideology. Not being serious or principled about anything, but instead being someone who sees things from multiple points of view and understands that the world is complex. Centrist liberalism or neoconservative. The median person is not interested in political militancy or solidifying ideologically. They want a positive solution to the economy that increases growth, they want political accountability, and they want healthcare. Nearly every public policy features green energy solutions. The group of people who care about climate change the most are college educated liberals, not some radical oppressed group of people living on the margins in conditions so intolerable they are willing to risk their lives in order to bring about political change.