If identity politics is politically effective, then you have deeper problems with your society, typically social inequalities allowing demagogues to manipulate the populace by promising the lower classes more. Can those problems be fixed through identity politics?
We hypothesize not, because fixing them is not in the best interest of those who gained and maintain power through identity politics.
Inspired in part by King's criticism ("racial nightmare") of identity politics in "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
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