Identity politics encourage block voting and sometimes the voters pay a blind eye to the policy discourse. At worst, identity politics may promote leadership based on class, creed, tribal and gender. I disagree that it's crucial for the health of any democracy.
‘The issues that we see embedded in identity cannot be divorced from our politics.’ @staceyabrams, the first African-American woman to be a major-party nominee for governor of a US state, argued at CH yesterday that identity politics are crucial to the health of any democracypic.twitter.com/uqZsPLXUq7
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