I'm damn tired of people who claim to be the left

[Caliman73]

328. Perhaps I was unclear.

By "they" I meant "we" as in Democrats.

I have not seen any Democratic politicians focus exclusively on "identity politics". That sounds more like conservative framing of what Democratic politicians are focusing on. Conservatives have been relying on framing and "working the refs" or setting the parameters that Democrats work under and when we repeat their narrative, then we help them. We did not lose because we spent too much time talking about "bathrooms" and other such non sense.

We lost through a variety of issues including vote suppression, media framing, infighting, and other things that kept the Democratic Party from pushing forward with its platform. There is a great deal of voter apathy because it serves the conservative interest to have less people vote. They deliberately go negative to make people "disgusted" with the process and stay home. more than 40% of eligible voters stayed home. You can say that the Democratic Party needs to be stronger in its messaging, but to say that we focus "too much" or "exclusively" is both false and plays into the hands of conservatives who are constantly pushing that narrative of Democrats being "elite", having a "gay agenda", and wanting to give your hard earned tax dollars to lazy Black people or illegal immigrants.


As I said in my post, identity and economics are inextricably linked.

Reverend Sharpton is correct in the sense that money is necessary for survival, however, if the color of your skin, who you go to bed with at night, or any other part of your identity, makes it more difficult for you to have a job to go to in the morning, then that is a part of the social and economic justice equation that needs to be addressed AND it can be addressed jointly with the larger economic issues.

White people (men in particular) do not lose when people of color, women, LGBT gain access to the same protections and rights that they have. It is not a sum zero game but that is certainly what conservative want to promote. Raising racial, gender based, and other anxieties and resentments is all they have left because their message is bankrupt.