02-04-2020, 09:56 AM
(02-03-2020, 09:12 PM)Dill Wrote: Both parties have leaned on "identity" politics since the Civil War. It's nowhere more pronounced than in the history of immigration and civil rights legislation.
(02-03-2020, 09:37 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Don’t forget the way religion has been used too.
See, you all are using the term in the appropriate way, not the way that the majority of people understand the term. Most people don't think of identity politics in this way because it's not what they have been told it is. It would also force them to admit that it is happening constantly and they have fallen prey to it, which creates dissonance. This is why they create a construct in which their side isn't engaging in it to help alleviate the dissonance.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
