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Originally Posted by rousseau
The hysterical posture of the social justice warriors and the identity politics crew doesn't help things, it's true. It has served to alienate much of the white working class who should be the Democrats' base. This is a real problem. But the asinine stupidity and the attendant ills it's causing in American society are so asymmetrical they verge on caricature.
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The "coastal elites" or whatever you want to call them have extremely little empathy for their rural compatriots and their canonical ideological stance around gender issues, to take another example, is increasingly detached from reality.
In one representative opinion I read, somebody wrote that the rural American towns that are falling apart where nobody has jobs and half the population is on heroin or oxycontin have nobody to blame but themselves, and that in any case that phenomenon is inconsequential next to the suffering of refugees in Syria, so we shouldn't be talking about it.
I've also read feminist opinions that insist that, to make up for pro-male bias in hiring in the past, every new university faculty hire should be female now. The blowback for that was nonexistent. But post somewhere that a scientific study identified population-level gender differences in ability in math and you will be pilloried. You could easily lose your job.
The extreme example of neo-Nazis driving cars into crowds of people is worse but, well, the median on both sides is still extremely crazy now. Neither one presents a plausible direction for the US. If the country is to move forward, both ideologies will have to be replaced by something that is grounded in reality and is broadly fair to everybody, not just 50% or less of the population.