There is more to life you know? When will liberals learn.
Edit: I changed the title so that people will understand what I am getting at. It is important to realise that economic anxiety trumps other concerns, especially in the growing wealth inequality and the overt shows of oligarchic rule. As Franklin Roosevelt said: People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
As I mentioned to other commenter, running on socially progressive platform of being inclusive to women, lgbt and ethnic minorities alone is not enough to win elections, the Democratic Party also has to run on economic progressivism. As an outsider looking on previous US presidential elections, the Democratic party hasn’t really offered anything of good substance on economic issue. The $25,000 cash assistance to buy a house is a joke if people say stating to someone that making six figures is not enough to impress anyone anymore. I heard Democrats go on more on “Can you believe Trump said this!”, or “Kamala will be the first female black Indian president!” Any average voters would say “okay, we expect Trump would say and that you are black Indian female, but what are you gonna do for us with the rising cost of living?”
She did talk about what she would do though. She ran on increasing the minimum wage to atleast 15. The cash assistance is actually incredibly helpful but you’re right it’s not enough but also, I don’t know who is around you but everyone I know, old and young, find making over 100k to be impressive. She also talked about plenty of other progressive policies.
Also her and all Democrats mainly ran on the problems she could fix and also on the Trump is a fascist shit that was 100% accurate. I only heard the idea of her being the first black Indian woman president be a side thing. There weren’t literal slogans about it like with Clinton in 2016.
Again, you’re not saying what is identity politics. Is it just that socially progressive policies is identity politics?
Edit: I also think it’s important to say that “identity politics” is a right wing term used to describe accepting minorities and giving them equal rights. If you say you’re fine with Social progressivism and just want economic progressivism too, that’s fine. But then why use their right wing term for it? Why not do “Democrats: Best I can do is socially progressive and economically conservative policies”?