Which group of reliable democrats are YOU willing to lose to get White Men to vote Democratic?

[Ken Burch]

202. I agree with those who say we should find a different term than "identity politics".

I would have phrased the lines in Bernie's speech, the speech that seems to have set a lot of this off, in words more like this:

"Representation of historically powerless groups is a justifiable goal, a goal we should fight for.

But such representation, in and of itself, isn't enough.

If you have a diverse group of people who all share a corporate-centrist-insider sense of life, who identify with the few rather than the many, is the physical appearance of diversity in such a group all that important?

We need representation from below, from people with, an visceral, personal connection to powerlessness, rather than simply having a diverse-looking elite.

And we need to represent the ideas that have been excluded as well as the people who have been left out-the idea of the common good, the idea that people matter as much as profit, the idea that we shouldn't only do those things that will make someone rich if they're done".

I wonder if, had it been phrased that way, we would be having a better conversation than the one we're having now.