A shout out to "social issues"

[BainsBane]

189. You missed the point completely

Or rather you deliberately ignored it. The picture of poor people should have been a clue.
This division you place between social and economic is false. It negates the very real economic concerns of the majority of Americans. Women and people of color are in particular disproportionately poor. Yet that poverty is dismissed as "social" for one reason: it's not about you.

This lexicon of "corporatism" is all the rage of late and signals a mindset of people who have only just recently started to think about the inequality that the rest of us have always experienced. The halcyon days of the Democratic Party many here hearken back to where a period when the rest of us not only didn't benefit from basic civil rights, but we lived in crippling poverty. What people who go on about corporatism are lamenting is not the structural inequality that has characterized this country from its inception but the decline of their own class. For some that also includes a lament about the decline of their race and gender privilege.

Repeating "corporate" and "oligarch" day in and day out doesn't make your concerns any more intrinsically economic that the majority of Americans you dismiss as "social issues." Nor does it, like many here assume, make their experience universal. Prattling on about 'corporatism" while others are trying to put food on the table, you assume that rhetoric makes your concerns more important than the folks whose ability to feed their families, legally marry, or have control over their own bodies. I will not forsake my basic interests and those of the majority of Americans the few dismiss as "social issues" to cater to middle- and upper-middle class anger at Wall Street. You are entitled to pursue your own interests. What you are not entitled to do is claim that you, more than I, know what my interests are, particularly when you dismiss them so derisively.

There is a clear, class and race -based attitude at work in this discussion about the part, in which those of relative privilege assume their experience and interests to be universal and more important than the majority of Americans. I do not share that view, and I will not adopt a vision of politics aimed at indulging anger of those privileged enough that they can glibly dismiss as of lesser consequence the issues and lives of those discussed in my OP.