I'm damn tired of people who claim to be the left

[Caliman73]

179. They don't

The problem is when people that are Democrats like Joe Biden, or who are on the left working to remake the Democratic Party, like Bernie Sanders (who I voted for in the primary) are saying things like, "We need to move away from identity politics", then it becomes a problem where the message and focus of the Democratic Party appears to have to be one or the other.

They are inextricably linked. For people who discuss opportunity and equal access to the "American Dream" which is an economic and social thing, they need to truly understand that groups of people, whether by gender, color, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and other demographics, have been cut out or at least that dream has been made more difficult to achieve in a deliberate and systematic way that cannot be fixed solely by focusing on "good middle class jobs" and diminishing the power of Wall Street.

That was something that was always lacking to me in Sanders' campaign, and while he did get a little better at it as the campaign went on, he never resonated with many minority voters and women because he focused mainly on the economics without understanding that while important as a whole, you can't tell a Black person who has been discriminated against, or a woman, who is paid less than her male counterparts for the same job, that everything will be fixed by taking power from Wall Street or creating infrastructure jobs, especially if the Black person thinks, "why bother, those jobs will go to White people" and the woman thinks, "I'll still get paid, 75 cents on the dollar for what my male peers get".

I liken this to the idea that Christians feel discriminated against because other faith traditions and atheist groups are displaying a louder voice regarding the public sphere these days. Christians have been used to everything in society being tailored to them with little to no questioning as to their dominance. Now that there is push back, they see it as oppression, rather than the request to give respect to other points of view.