identity politics

The Bernie's Back Rally in Queens yesterday was massive-- 25,872 in the park and what looked like almost as many outside. People were watching from the bridge and there were so many people trying to get to the park that the blocks around it had to be closed to traffic.

Vision logic 1Each stage in the history of the civil rights movement has had a specific theme and focus. In the 19th century it was race and gender, in the 20th it was race, gender, gay, bi, trans, queer, in the 21st it is all of them +.

Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
The 1999 film Fight Club is an exploration into the underbelly of both radical and fascist social change in postmodern America. Beneath the film’s anti-establishment/anti-materialist veneer is a sardonic foray into cultural Marxism, archetypal motifs and dissociative identity disorder.

One of the saying commonly attributed to statements like this above headline is to say “Captain Obvious” is speaking. We all already know this – that debate becomes absurd when dealing with identity politics. But do we really stop to consider just how widely destructive the use of identity politics actually is to running a representative republic?
And does the absurdity confine itself to identity politics? Is this manifestation of elitism restricted only to one political party in the United States?

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a speech Monday in which he defended his record of “standing up to Russia” as an attempt to show his toughness compared with Democrats. However, in his statements, he also cast several “poison arrows” that are all but guaranteed to prevent the normalization of relations between the US and her most similar superpower in the world.

Monday, I responded to a tweet about some random guy primarying Jan Schakowsky (D-IL): "Jan Schakowsky is one of the best members of Congress & is one of the few who has NOT failed us." Notice what I didn't say: Jan Schawkowsky is one of the best female members of Congress" or even "Jan Schawkowsky is one of the best Jewish members of Congress"-- although she is both.

On June 28, the New York Times published an article by Bari Weiss that wasn’t moronic.

AOC, Ayanna, Rashida-- 3 perfect voting records + moreNow that Congress has been taking some tough votes, there are just 13 freshman members left with crucial vote scores that give them “A” grades.

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Netflix recently ordered a 10-episode first series of Q-Force, the world’s first animated LGBTQ spy series.  Pitched as a ‘gay...