"The only people whose interests are served by identity politics are politicians, because when identity drives politics, politicians no longer have to work to win votes by delivering services or promoting economic development. If you are a partisan strategist – for either party – the holy grail is to assemble a stable coalition of voters who are not thinking about the quality of the schools or the crime rate or the unemployment rate, but instead about whether the candidate is “one of us.” Then all you have to do is bribe a handful of voters at the margins to win elections. But if you actually care about policy outcomes – whether you are on the left or on the right – that’s disaster.[...] Now ask yourself: in whose interest is it to frustrate the citizenry from organizing around common interests? It ain’t the citizenry’s.~ Noah Millman
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:50:59 +0000
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