The beauty of identity politics as an ideal and a practice of social justice is that it has allowed women to form a coalition across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability — the antithesis of divisiveness — to improve the particularity of experience for them and their children.
And it must create a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition of working-class, middle-class, and poor white and black Americans and Latinos determined to wrest control of the economy back from an oligarchy of Wall Street moguls, corporate titans and billionaires who have used it for their own gain – starting with the president-elect.
Popular front, any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties united for the defense of democratic forms against a presumed Fascist assault.
Hunt's most common complaint against the coalition is that class sizes in primaries are creeping upwards.
"The best way to unite a progressive coalition with working class voters is to push for a 100% renewable energy economy that works for all," she said.
Like a vacuum cleaner, he is sucking up the Clintonian message to blue collar voters and absorbing the rhetoric which has successfully lured a coalition of working class whites, seniors and women.
Given his ability to bridge the racial fault lines in the Democratic Party, perhaps Mr. Clinton's most important legacy in the area of race and politics has been to bequeath the party the recipe for recreating Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 coalition of working class whites, high-end liberals and minorities.
So the class coalition against the top doesn't come together.
For example, here's a story about some positive coalition building across class lines within a local latino community.
The city itself is 50-50 bland and white so Ryan could be exactly the kind of guy to help put together a new multi-racial working and middle class coalition.
