The type of politics you hear the most about today is identity politics and issues related to it. From affirmative action and reparations to LGBTQ+ rights and white nationalism, most people today are concerned with issues related to one's identity, be it sex, gender, race, ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, and so on.
I'd like to hear your thoughts as to who most is to blame for this prevalence of identity politics.
"Identity politics", although they weren't called that at the time, basically started back in the 70's with the topic of abortion and the formation by Christian republicans of "the moral majority".
"Moral Majority was an American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell Sr. and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s."
Of course republicans will never admit that it all started with them and their desire to control such viewpoints of others based on religion, but even their continued current denial doesn't change documented, historical fact, or the fact that the supposed public dissolution of "the moral majority" obviously didn't end the desire by republicans to interject their personal religious beliefs into public policy...even if doing so means transparently trying to hypocritically accuse people who ACTUALLY understand the importance of the democratic, American, constitutional ideal of a separation of church and state of playing identity politics. - Eyeroll -
I think religion was the biggest one when I was growing up. One of my friend's parents said they were voting for Bush Jr. because he was religious, and that's the only reason they needed. Liberals were pandering to a broad any-identity, so identities disenfranchised by the conservative identity had nowhere else to go. The "women of color" and "men can literally be women" shit came pretty recently. So if I had to put blame on anyone, it would have to be the conservatives who created that lane in the first place. It's all a setup, of course... "elites" giving people a fake enemy, so they can continue to do warfare on us while we're distracted fighting each other.
share20 years of liberal activism.. The activist always has something to complain about. And when someone disagrees, they start foaming at the mouth and label anyone that disagrees as some kind of "phobe".
It's caused a lot of damage to this great nation.
I'd say it's conservative news outlets lying about the election and a whole bunch of other stuff!
shareCyrus the Great?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great
You try to put too many different peoples under one umbrella, there's always problems.