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In reply to the discussion: We Need A Class Consciousness Revival [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)And that's a laughable diversion.. as is your amusing accusation that I'm using "Trumpian" tactics. I think it's proof your argument is running out of steam but you like keeping up appearances.
But speaking of the right... it was many decades ago that I read or heard somewhere that it was the Right... maybe even JE Hoover's COINTELPRO who wanted to encourage identity politics as a way of weakening the left so it might never be a unified threat. I've never been able to track this down, but given how the Dems lost their commitment to labor... I think identity politics played a big role. But I'd also blame cowardice on the part of Dems to stand up to the GOP especially starting in the Reagan years. Here we are 35 years into Starve The Beast... a strategy that poses an existential threat to the liberal hope to use government to do good for it's people... and with the exception of Bill Clinton who was on the verge of debt paydown... the Dems show virtually no willingness to expose the dark motives of the Right in creating massive debt... the same with national health care. How did the GOP go from 80% of GOP senators being cosponsors to bills with an individual mandate in 1993... to a virtual rejection of national health care the next year?
But I stray.