More on “the Liberal approach”

[bigsky]

It’s not about tv programs selling humira and beer. These are from the Chronicle of Higher Education. And this article posits where identity politics leads: “A global surge of identity politics, which has in turn fueled populist nationalism, authoritarianism, religious conflict, and democratic decline.”

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Wh...-End-of/244369

And one which lays out the current state of on canpus insanity

https://www.chronicle.com/article/I-...nell-I/244415/

[ukpumacat]

That first article is terrific. Thanks for the link.

[CitizenBBN]

what's ironic is that traditionally identity politics has been the harbinger of the Right and a move to some kind of fascism. it's "us v. them", it usually comes at times of economic crisis as people look for someone to blame, specifically someone ELSE to blame.

In this case it's primarily coming from the Left, who are using it as a campaign issue just as say the Nazis did in their era. And in fact modern Leftism is in fact a fascist movement, it's just fascism that is calling for "tolerance" under pain of excommunication, but only tolerance of their belief set.

The pattern is always the same. 1930s European fascism, the rise of Radical Islam, this current extremist Left movement in the US. You divide people and then blame those other people for your struggles.

The great irony is that Trump is blamed as the divider. He's not, he's just the messenger of the division that's happening. Half of this country disagrees with the Leftist religion (and it is a religion at this point at the extreme left) and Trump speaks both to and for them in many ways. The fact that he doesn't agree doesn't make him divisive, b/c the implication is that the accepted position is the Left position and if you don't get on board you're "divisive" and "a racist sexist homophobe".

Of course there are plenty on the Right who want to divide as well, no doubt. But I'm not sure any movement of this type has happened historically under the guise of NOT dividing people, when that is in a very significant way the whole point of what they are doing.