Identity Politics

(Opinion) While Republicans are fully engaged in their multi-year goal of resurrecting a previous legacy, Democrats have been playing their own game since Barack Obama - identity politics. Big decisions made based on race and gender, or other irrelevant qualifications. A cynical path without substance or logical basis in fact, since gender and race have zero to do with leadership.

Voters have never before had so much to decipher from dishonest media. But, folks seem wiser this time, experienced, less gullible. It's possible that America has learned a lesson, an awareness crisscrossing over old, conventional political alliances. Maybe all voters have become smarter, more independent in thought, more skeptical of highly politicized news platforms pushing narratives over reality. Perhaps we've eventually learned that intersectional checkboxes cannot measure talent. 

There is no satisfactory dogma, no wilted word salad tossed up to a public no longer distracted with shiny objects, none are effective now. After this long, tumultuous national election, identity politics may go straight into history's big dumpster of badly skewed strategies, bankrupt ideas that were finally proven unsuccessful.