> Identity is often intimately tied to distinct material circumstances
Not so fast. Au courant are stories around data disaggregation, highlighting that Asian Americans in NYC have the highest poverty rate (also noted is the way this runs counter to popular perceptions). But rather than splitting up the populace in increasingly finer-grained ways, why don't we just do something to address the poverty in our society?
To wit, yes we agree the DNC does want to do anything about poverty or economic inequalities in general. They are happy to stage photo ops while draped in kente cloth but they will never do anything to improve the material circumstances of the lower classes.
> The Democratic party has held the belief that demographics will keep them in power without having to actually address economic and legal inequalities
>> That's very much not true of either of the major factions of the Democratic Party.
You mean the neoliberal and conservative wings of the Democratic party? I assume "the squad" knows how to use political power as well as Manchin, but the fact that they don't indicates they, too, simply use identity as a means to the ends of the donor class.
> But rather than splitting up the populace in increasingly finer-grained ways, why don't we just do something to address the poverty in our society?
Because the actual specific dynamics are different for different parts of society; when you try to address the problem without regard to those differences, which tend to be very closely tied to identity because they are one of the things that forges shared identities, you end up addressing the broad problem in the way which address the way that problem manifests in the most dominant group primarily.
> I assume "the squad" knows how to use political power as well as Manchin,
Better, probably.
> but the fact that they don't
Uh, they do.
What they don't do is have the position Manchin (or Sinema) does by virtue of the 50-50 balance in the Senate, and the reliable support of Republicans when they oppose the rest of the Democratic Party.
Not so fast. Au courant are stories around data disaggregation, highlighting that Asian Americans in NYC have the highest poverty rate (also noted is the way this runs counter to popular perceptions). But rather than splitting up the populace in increasingly finer-grained ways, why don't we just do something to address the poverty in our society?
To wit, yes we agree the DNC does want to do anything about poverty or economic inequalities in general. They are happy to stage photo ops while draped in kente cloth but they will never do anything to improve the material circumstances of the lower classes.
> The Democratic party has held the belief that demographics will keep them in power without having to actually address economic and legal inequalities
>> That's very much not true of either of the major factions of the Democratic Party.
You mean the neoliberal and conservative wings of the Democratic party? I assume "the squad" knows how to use political power as well as Manchin, but the fact that they don't indicates they, too, simply use identity as a means to the ends of the donor class.