Ha! No offense, but that's extraordinarily superficial. Pelosi, Sanders, and Ocasio-Cortez are really different from each other. Let's just say that there's a very good reason that Pelosi is Speaker of the House and Sanders is a backbencher who's never really done anything of note in the Senate. Pelosi is actually much more moderate than she's usually portrayed, and is fiercely pragmatic. Sanders... well let's just say that after watching him debate Clinton I worried that if he were President he'd respond to an international crisis by ordering the Marines to pull out of Da Nang. Ocasio-Cortez is interesting but really really green. (And I don't mean eco-friendly.) If she sticks with Congress she could become a real force to be reckoned with in ten or twenty years once she learns how to actually do the job.





If you go back and watch the Sanders Clinton debates, you'll notice that they rarely debated actual policy. Because there really wasn't much daylight between them on substantive issues. The differences between them were about tactics, style, and personality. Calling Clinton a "corporatist" is just mindlessly repeating a stupid meme. A meme, incidentally, that's deeply rooted in sexism. Just look at how utterly substance free the attacks on Clinton are. She screwed up setting up an email server. So what? This is being driven by people who simply can't deal with the idea of a woman being President.





In my experience, people who complain about identity politics are often people who feel like they're being blamed for something they didn't do. People who feel like they're being told that they're evil for being... well whatever the appropriate categories are. And who are afraid of being punished for something they didn't do.





Am I anywhere near the mark here?





Let me ask you, do you seriously think that I or anyone other than crazy people on Twitter would seriously blame you personally for a problem that's society wide?





This isn't about blame. The blame game is stupid and pointless and accomplishes a whole lot of nothing. What I care about and what the vast majority of Democrats and people on the left care about is making things better. It's easy to pretend that race, gender, and so on don't matter when you're a white guy. It's easy to ignore bigotry when you're not the target. But you know what? Driving while black is a thing. Mansplaining is a thing. And so on. And for people who are the target of these sorts of things pretending it doesn't exist isn't an option. Whether you want to admit it or not, we have a real problem in this society, and we do not treat people fairly or equally. and I don't give a shit about who's fault it is, I care about fixing it.

