12-21-2020, 01:34 AM
(12-20-2020, 07:40 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-20-2020, 06:21 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(12-20-2020, 04:15 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I'm sure that he has assembled the best that identity politics has to offer these days.
"Identity politics." Interesting phrase. It seems to be one of those racist key phrases. It tries to make a positive out of racism. Traditionally, the best jobs are reserved for white males. It means your selection pool is very limited. The result doesn't look like America, but a much smaller part of America which tends to be elitist.
Racism is one of the issues of the crisis, any you seem to be on the wrong side. A look at the cabinet, and the Republicans are definitely on the wrong side. The key problems of the crisis tend to be solved rather brutally. This one, less so. The arrow of progress - democracy, equality, human rights - seems not to be pointing in your direction these days. Ignore the arrow and you find yourself heading for ruin.
Identity Politics goes against equality by teaching/promoting inferiority and reliance upon the state. It's backwards and counter productive and impedes progress. The Democratic party is still racist and still uses racism as a political tool today. I'd suggest that you stop using it and playing with it like them before it blows up in your face.
The most blatant expressions of identity politics are those of racist, reactionary white people who have contempt for anyone not white, straight, Christian, and similarly reactionary. Trump exploited that in the extreme. It worked once. The Democratic Party is much closer to being a Big Tent than is the Greedy Old Profiteers Party.
Enough white people have no use for that garbage that Trump could not get re-elected.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.