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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)As there has been for a long time.
I also saw a lot of impatience with "identity politics" being dissed as distracting from the real issue of income inequality, primarily in the "white male working class." Bernie kept repeating that.
Bernie didn't take all straight white men, but his supporters were a majority of Democratic white men.
When women, people of color, LGBTQs and new Americans are dismissed and 'splained to about how they don't understand that solving income inequality and getting single payer health care will take care of all those other "identity issues" then I know it's not about their income inequality.... it's about the white straight guys. And BTW - better incomes and universal health care didn't solve racism, sexism homophobia and xenophobia in Europe, as we have seen.
After the election one midwestern Democratic congressman unintentionally put it so well when he said, "I'm as progressive as anybody, but it seemed like the Party cared more about bathrooms than creating jobs."
That is what dismissing the life-threatening issues of other "non-white straight males" sounds like.