While I disagree on your other points, I agree that traditional left wing is totally dead in this country. It's been co-opted by wacko identity politics.

The politician closest to the traditional values of the left wing is ironically Trump.

It has not been coopted by wacko identity politics.

That's a made up story by right wing podcasters who sell boner pills.

For instance, here's the schedule for a socialist bookstore in LA https://allpowerbooks.org/ ... There's Zero idpol. Here's the books they're highlighting, https://allpowerbooks.org/collections/books here's a publisher https://www.versobooks.com/ scroll and read the titles.

Here's the upcoming schedule for DSA, https://dsa-la.org/calendar/list/ again zero. Nothing here https://jacobin.com/ either.

Then there's anarchist groups like the ones that try to prevent drug overdose https://www.ieharmreduction.org/ or feed the homeless. Here scroll through the Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/lafnb they give no shits about idpol.

It's manufactured presentation by right wing media celebs - a projection of their characters like Milo Yinnapolis, Andy Ngo and Oli London onto what they imagine the left is doing.

The right is full of loud bombastic personalities like Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro, Mike Cernovich, Baked Alaska, Cat Turd, Libs of Tiktok and all the plastic surgery ladened evangelical TV pastors dripping in make-up. It's just psychological projection.

> It has not been coopted by wacko identity politics.

Proceeds to quote wacko communist politics.

When I say traditional left, I don't mean far, academic, elitist left. I'm talking union, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Bernie Sanders types. Not academics who write books about the role of Cuban women in the Communist revolution.

You hilariously proved exactly my point.

You think "identity politics" means "communism", that "communism" means "socialism" and that "liberal" means "left"?!

Alright. We're using different dictionaries.

Sometimes Democrats are like "but I'm a woman" because their policies are otherwise indistinguishable from the Republican, ok sure. Democrats are just Republicans that wave a pride flag. If that's the claim than agreed.

> Alright. We're using different dictionaries.

The two of you maybe, not the OP and most of the rest of the world.

Thinking identity politics, liberalism, leftism, socialism, the Democrats and communism are equivalent.

I know people who think this. I have them in my family. Doesn't mean it's correct