THE GOOD ABOUT IDENTITY POLITICS (FOR THEM)
The good part (for them) is that they don't have to discuss issues (which is hard for them, because there is no popular mandate for their policies, and many of their base are not interested in the details) they can instead work with emotion. Things like enfranchisement, perceived discrimination, aspects of tribal politics, us against them, etc.
THE BAD ABOUT IDENTITY POLITICS (FOR THEM...AND FOR US)
The bad part (for them, and all of us) is that they begin to run out of classes of victimhood or aggrieved. The snake begins to eat its own tail, because those groups in society can only be plumbed so deep...it isn't a bottomless well they can continue to dip the bucket into. At some point, they have to keep creating more victims to pit against some other portion of society. And as we saw recently with Asian students in New York who lost seats in a school admissions issue to black students...the victims interests will eventually collide.
In the process of trying to steer these groups of aggreived voters, they create hate, tension, racism, bigotry, sexism, and nearly every other "ism" that can be dreamed up in order to whip them up so they vote for the Left. As that is going on, every other aspect of society suffers including the aggrieved class themselves.
So the problem with the Left is...their voter base will shrink without new subscribers to victimhood. They have three ways to make that up: Illegal Immigration, Voter Fraud, and extending the vote to teenagers under 18 or younger.
Illegal Immigration is running up against political resistance, and it is hoped, will get controlled, as well as changing LEGAL immigration to get rid of a lottery and a system heavily slanted to bring in people who gravitate to the Leftist side because they lack skills and will be dependent on government largesse.
Voter Fraud is hard, labor intensive work involving a lot of mouths that speak, eyes that see, and ears that hear, is legally risky, and unless done right, prone to failure.
Their best bet is teen voting. There is all upside and no downside, as nearly anyone who has ever been sixteen can attest to if you look at it from a Leftist perspective. High degrees of alienation, idealism, the desire to be treated like an adult, the arrogance of youth that you have all the facts and experience, and nobody can change your mind.
They don't have to pay taxes and bills the same way adults do (generally) and they usually don't have families to support. Those that do have families to support are getting government money in some form.
In short...it is ALL emotion and ignorance, which is what the Left banks on.
And sixteen and 17 year olds have that in spades.
There are between 10 and 15 million Americans aged 16 and 17.
Think of that. How many of them, with their brains filled with brainwashed crap force fed them by Hollywood, the media, and their schools, are going to vote with the Left?
You don't have to be a genius to see why they are doing this.
One thing the Mexican Constitution has that we should consider doing.Mexico has no hyphenated Mexicans. They prohibit any reference to race when they conduct a census or issue any means of identification, Where a physical description is needed skin color yes but not by race or nationality or tribal background.By doing this Mexico has avoided “balkanizing”, creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority.