The Liberal Case for Ending Identity Politics with Mark Lilla 01.30.2019

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"Frustration with the system is inversely related to participation in the system." Wow, is he wrong. Several decades ago, the Democratic party abandoned its traditional base of working- and middle-class voters to cater to a professional managerial class at odds with anyone economically below them, and to a corporate-military complex that sucks up public funding. (Thomas Frank has described this political shift in detail.) No amount of participation by these abandoned Democratic voters has been able to shift the corporate Dems back to their traditional base. These voters have been been betrayed by a party that now ignores their interests, and their frustration is all the more severe because they remain participants, but participants unheard, unseen, unrepresented.

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Lilla is right, it’s just too bad that identity politics is only getting much worse .

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Lilla is reasonable and a great representative of liberalism. Americans need to become more political while not succumbing to politicization. In politics we can entertain and manage contrary points of view and policies. We cannot do this if we understand politics in an exclusively personal or religious way. This is the tendency and this is not political. If conservatives cannot respect the likes of Lilla then there is little hope of politics in its genuine sense.

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18:00 BLM picketing Hillary & Bernie for not being radical enough

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Yhe Left has got a huge problem

[@KugoCho]

“Socialism, whatever that means”. Guess we know type of Democrat Lilla is.

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Maybe Republicans woke up to a more pacifist approach... And it is for the better