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In reply to the discussion: We Need A Class Consciousness Revival [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)This is what drives me nuts about the PC intolerance and irrationality of many at DU.
I was pretty clear in my OP:
"I think the Dems have been dragged too far into the realm of identity politics by some of the groups in the Dem coalition. Yes, there will always be a need to recognize some legitimate issues of identity repression, but I believe economics is a more universal issue to unite the masses... and Dems have forgotten this lesson.
But some PC extremists here are so fucking threatened that anyone suggests that there are also other issues out there... little things like income, economics, winning elections, better strategies to combat the right... they think it's fair to accuse someone:
"You sound genuinely resentful that women, LGBTs and POC have legit basic human rights issues...."
Go to hell.
So in your warped world only THOSE groups deserve "equal rights" and you can't even show support for something as basic to DEMOCRACY as something that affects ALL of us: civic equality in the vote... a concept so basic IT'S CENTRAL TO MORALLY LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT?
How's that Bush and Trump Junta working out for you? How's that GOP Senate working out when Dem Senators represent 33 million more Americans than the GOP?
I was clear I can support both... but unlike you I HAVE SOME PERSPECTIVE and never want to lose sight of BIG issues. I don't want to be penny wise pound foolish in the political sense. Everyone has to pick their battles. Everyone has to strategize how to form a governing majority... especially in an antidemocratic system that Dems refuse to try and reform. In that fight I believe pushing economic solidarity is a more inclusive message than micro issues like trans bathrooms... if you don't like it... sue me.