Posted on 01/10/2017 8:52:54 PM PST by MtnClimber
In the days that followed Donald Trump’s election victory, liberal assessments about what went wrong and prescriptions for how the Left can move forward were in short supply. There were, however, exceptions. Notable among those was Mark Lilla’s piece in the New York Times ten days after Hillary Clinton’s loss describing the need to bring about an end to the “age of identity liberalism.” Lilla’s case in favor of a “pre-identity liberalism” is a convincing one, but he doesn’t propose a method to bring about a return to this providential status quo ante. There’s a reason for that: there isn’t one—at least, not an easy one. Political movements are not party committees. They don’t radically redefine their mission at the drop of a white paper. The modern activist left was reared on toxic identity politics, and it seems disinclined to abandon this addictive poison without a struggle.
As Democrats come to terms with a new era of Republican dominance, leftists have rallied around the idea that they constitute a “resistance.” It’s no fluke that this term evokes images of beret-clad partisans gathering around lantern light plotting the sabotage of railway lines; they fancy themselves a rebellion against an illegitimate regime. It’s an invigorating fantasy, but a flimsy and self-serving one. Gallingly, the liberal anti-Trump resistance doesn’t share the organizational competence or unity of purpose demonstrated by the underground anti-fascist movements they seek to mimic. The modern left is an amalgam characterized by enforced ideological homogeneity with a multicultural face. Increasingly, however, it’s a face that resents its own multiculturalism.
Take, for example, the so-called “Women’s March” that will descend on Washington D.C. to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 21.
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The peaceful, tolerant left proves to be violent and intolerant and to stoke racism.
the modern left wants to
divide all non whites against whites
divide all females against malkes
and divide Everyone against Christians
Theirs is a philosphy that is based almost entirely on bigotry.
The liberals are eating their own. Bon appétit!
They paid a price for their politics in this past election; many black men refused to vote for Hillary (and they could have delivered enough close states to put her over the top).
This is good. I will not share it with my Liberal friends. I won’t help them.
Identity politics serves several purposes.
* Using demographics to create instant tribes is an easy way to assign people to competing factions. No need to argue about what someone is (barring transgenderism, solution = create new tribe).
* It creates the besieged mentality due to all these competing tribes and highlighting how they are an oppressed minority, ready to do whatever the promised savior/protector says.
* By assigning an approved political ideology to each tribe, it results in social pressure to conform to the ideology (akin to alignment of faith and state, whether Shariah or church). If you are black and not a Democrat, you’re not really black or a race traitor, free to be verbally bashed, shunned, hated. This social pressure silences dissent and maintains majority compliance.
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