Always welcome a good rhombus snap, it’s woefully underused.

I can provide an answer to your questions — but there will be people better placed to do so than me.

By far the best answer to the problems facing the US is socialism. That means the middle class paying more taxes and slowly raising people regardless of their skin colour, sex or sexuality out of poverty. It means maternity care, paternity care, basic healthcare and a universal minimum wage.

That doesn’t really appeal to the middle class though, because it’s too left wing a solution. Catching everyone means that you help the undeserving poor (generally considered to be white trailer trash) and the deserving poor (disadvantaged people from oppressed groups) at the same time. Identity politics provides an answer.

It takes the Marxist economic model, and it makes identity the new indicator of class, not money. It means pushing for a very specific sort of equality — but it leads to infighting within the groups. Who is more disadvantaged? White women or black men? Who is more disadvantaged, a liberal female trans-activist from California or a homeless drug addict from the Rust belt.

It has lots of buzzwords — but it distracts from the real problem. That’s why the economic working class aren’t involved. They don’t have the time or energy for it, they’re just trying to live. It’s for self-identified victims to make the case for why they should overthrow the political system on behalf of the truly oppressed as they define it. For that reason it’s doomed to failure. It looks virtuous, but it is inherently selfish when viewed across an entire demos.

The real push should be as you’ve intimated, socialism. For everyone. All identity politics has done is led to infighting and reduced the chance of genuine progress and stopping the suffering of the majority of people.

Thanks for commenting. :o)