For quite some time, we’ve heard people who espouse a certain political philosophy say things like the following.
Vote for women because they are women and we don’t have enough women in positions of power.
Vote for African-Americans because they are African-American and we don’t have enough African-Americans in positions of power.
Vote for Asians because they are Asians and because we don’t have enough Asians in positions of power.
Vote for immigrants because they are immigrants and we don’t have enough immigrants.
Vote for gay people because we don’t have enough gay people in positions of power.
But all of those things get thrown out the window the minute anyone representing any of those categories decides to run with the wrong political party affiliation. Now the message is, in order to stamp out racism, boat against black, Asian, and Hispanic conservatives. In order to stamp out sexism, vote against women conservatives.
I’m beginning to think that the goal has never been to advance the interests of the various ethnic and gender groups, but to use members of those groups to advance a political agenda.
How about this radical idea, vote for people who share your values, who have integrity, who have good character, and who want what’s best for all Americans. Instead of mindlessly voting because of the letter that comes after their name on the ballot.
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This demonstrates that identity politics is standard operating procedure for the left. A black candidate only matters if that candidate is a lefty supporting the leftist agenda. It isn't about the race of the candidate at all, but that candidate's race is supposed to tell us just how supportive of the black community they are. It's a lie, like so many of the lies the left tells. They don't care about the black community, except as it serves their agenda. The same is true with every other group into which they insist we are all a part...rather than the one big group that is called the USA. This dividing of the nation has been their modus operandi for years, and yet they dare accuse Trump and/or the GOP of being divisive. Well, the right is divisive and exclusive in the same way God is (generally), and that's a good thing.
Clearly, the race/gender/ethnicity/minority status is at best secondary to the commitment to stay on the liberal orthodoxy bandwagon. Identify politics are the stock in trade of the DFL, and we’re starting to see the problems with it. The biggest issues are where the pandering to one identity group comes at the expense of another identity group. It’s going to get worse before it gets better unless they can convince people that the contradictions aren’t contradictions.
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