Let's get JimBowie 'right' before he gets 'left' behind.
IdentityPolitics is played hard by both sides. We have right and left "built on racially categorizing people, and thus" both parties " keep racism alive and rolling, not people trying to control ALL immigration." Many of those opposed to immigration reform are racist haters of Latinos. We see it every day on the Board.
The GOP mainstream realize that we can't win with the WrHINOs like JimBowie. We need the center, the women, and the minorities much more than we need the far right
Again, you are wrong on several counts.
1. the GOP has not embraced Identity Politics by simply targeting demographic groups. That is not what ID is.
Identity politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Identity politics is a phenomenon that arose first at the radical margins of
liberal democratic societies in which human rights are recognized, and the term is not usually used to refer to dissident movements within single-party or authoritarian states. The elements of identity politics can be seen to be present in many of the earliest statements of feminists, ethnic movements and gay and lesbian liberation. Formally, it may even be taken back to Marx's earliest statements about a class becoming conscious of itself and developing a class identity. Class Identity politics were first described briefly in an article by L. A. Kauffman, who traced its origins to the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization of the civil-rights movement in the USA in the early and mid-1960s.
[3] Although SNCC invented many of the fundamental practices, and various black power groups extended them, they apparently found no need to apply a term. Rather, the term emerged when others outside the black freedom movements—particularly, the race- and ethnic-specific women's liberation movements, such as Black feminism— began to adopt the practice in the late 1960s. Traces of identity politics can also be found in the early writings of the modern gay movement such as Dennis Altman's
Homosexual: Liberation/Oppression,
[4][5] Jeffrey Week's
Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, and
[6] Ken Plummer's ed
The Making of the Modern Homosexual. One of the older written examples of it can be found in the
Combahee River Collective Statement of April 1977, subsequently reprinted in a number of anthologies,
[7] and
Barbara Smith and the
Combahee River Collective have been credited with coining the term; which they defined as "a politics that grew out of our objective material experiences as Black women.
[8] Some groups have combined identity politics and
Marxist social class analysis and
class consciousness—the most notable example being the
Black Panther Party—but this is not necessarily characteristic of the form. Another example is
MOVE, who mixed
black nationalism with
anarcho-primitivism (a radical form of
green politics based on the idea that civilization is an instrument of oppression, advocating a return to
hunter gatherer society) and the related idea
neo-luddism.
"
2. There is nothing racial about latinos as that is a LINGUSITIC GROUP, not a racial group.
3. When the GOP runs Presidential candidates that are conservative and/or 'run to the right' they win, and when they pick RINO 'main streamers' like Ford, Dole, Romney or McCain, the GOP loses.
4. Starkey is an idiot.
