Mark Lilla, back in November, wrote an article in the NYT Sunday Review titled, “The End of Identity Liberalism”. The Women’s March brought this to mind.
Identity Politics
Identity, the politics thereof
Is what propelled progressives in their fights
To win minorities their equal rights
Our fight was righteousness, our fight was love
The Women’s March that spanned the planet Earth
Had banners bright proclaiming the right stuff
Like women’s right to choose control of birth
Identity itself is not enough
The Democratic loss was brought about
By not addressing problems fundamental
To workers on subsistence elemental
Whose family’s future fill their lives with doubt
Our party must reach out at every level
We are our brother’s keeper we must heed
Our vision must include all at the table
Our soaring rhetoric must lead to deeds
1/24/17
