There are a couple of other things as well: 1. Right around the 2008-2012 elections people started to pay much more attention to exit polling showing varying voting patterns by race, and they realized that more immigrants = more Democratic voters.
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2. The left had a lot of class focus prior to 08, but the 08 Dem primaries showed that people got much more excited about race and gender than class. Obama got in and didn't go after the bankers even though Occupy Wall St wanted him to. Occupy didn't gain mainstream traction, and
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when that ended around 2011 the whole populist agenda was swept under the rug in favor of the more popular racial agenda. It helped that the corporations and even the wealthy nonwhite figures like Oprah had much more to gain from the racial stuff than the class stuff.
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Distracts from class resentment, at least
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I believe that's the main point: an ethnically divided people is more easily controlled. Even Aristotle had remarked upon it.
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