Wow did you hear what those Republican congressmen said to that bad guy in the hearing? Lol man they really ripped him apart. It was so awesome. What’s that? Oh no the bad guy won’t be arrested or charged with any crime or suffer any consequences of any kind at all. No, there will be no follow up on the hearing, no relevant legislation passed in response to it, no changes of any kind made at all ever. But did you see that viral clip of that one senator? He even used a cuss word! A real cuss word! He’s so tough and brave. I’m so impressed. Aren’t you?
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Even back on Fox, Tucker liked to push the idea that racialized politics gets pushed by economic elites to "distract" Americans from economic inequality, but in my opinion there's basically no evidence for it.
Britain and Canada are significantly more equal than America, but they still have incredibly shrill and toxic identity politics due to demographic change. The people pushing "democratic socialism" on the left are also the ones most gung-ho about everything from trans rights to abolish they police to curtailing free speech. They want higher taxes on the middle class types who are already hit hardest by the tax code -- they see California and New York as aspirational. Plus, none of this stuff is new -- the left believed in "woke" policies back in the 1960s too, well before the economic trends people complain about today had manifested.
This shouldn't surprise us: People who embrace one type of resentment-based politics are likely to embrace others.
We need a stronger social contract with young people in order to prevent them from voting in the radical left out of nihilistic frustration -- and because we need better-off young people for the country to thrive. But we must banish this cope that identity politics is a concocted distraction. It's not. It's a core piece of the left's worldview.