December 18, 2023

Democrats are using identity politics again to test the waters for a ballot replacement for Joe Biden instead of finding a candidate with bona fide qualifications — and integrity.

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Michelle Obama is being touted as a possible candidate who could beat Donald Trump.

She was recently publicized as an executive producer of a Netflix fiction movie, along with her husband, Barack. 

There was not much of the old Obama hopey-change messaging in her anti-white Netflix endeavor, however, which left identity politics as her selling point with voters.

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Per the academic definition, identity politics is a Marxist tactic of assigning utmost societal importance to a candidate’s empowerment of a collective, victimized group such as women or minorities.

Anyone opposing the “candidate as victim” is immediately labeled as suppressing the entire representative group. For example, people who opposed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton were labeled as anti-women or misogynists, just as those who criticized Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 were called racist.

Identity politics has pulverized Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of Americans judging others by the “content of their character instead of the color of their skin” in choosing a candidate.

Meanwhile, collectivism is a fundamental element of totalitarian ideology.

As a result, political candidate selection that should embrace American individualism and Dr. King’s character-content theory is now surpassed by identity politics.

However, individualism and integrity as candidate qualifiers have not worked out well for Democrats.