Identity Politics is a Trojan Horse in Progressive Politics
It is how the 99% gets divided and conquered
It wasn’t that long ago that Occupy and Bernie Sanders supporters saw clearly through the “I’m with her” gender identity politics of Hillary Clinton and called ourselves Progressive rather than Liberals. Liberals were the ones who were OK with giant banks getting bail outs under Obama, and the US waging a proxy war in Syria under Clinton’s watch at the State Department; but get all fired up with righteous rage when someone opines that a Jewish man will make a better president than a white woman not because of his gender but his policy platform. Policies platform such as Green New Deal (which has its problems but is still miles better than what passes as solutions nowadays), and stopping the corporate take-over of the government. They smeared Bernie supporters as “white bros” and smeared Bernie as anti-black.
Now, I’m pissed that identity politics has highjacked the Progressive movement. Earth’s climate is on the verge of collapse with wild fires, heat waves, droughts, and floods happening everywhere; fatalities are piling up in another proxy war in Ukraine; global food and material shortages are getting worse. But righteous indignation is now raging, again, around identity politics. Apparently, “Progressives” think that parents who want control over their pre-pubescent…