Does the Leadership Elite of the Left Really have the Best Interests of Its Constituents in Mind?
In the article How Elites Ruined the Black Lives Matter Movement and Other Tales of Left-Wing Failure - POLITICO we see the following:
As deBoer, who is white, puts it in his book: “If you’re a Black child living in poverty and neglect in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, you might very well wonder how the annual controversy over the number of Black artists winning Oscars impacts your life.” Rather than making gains in a fight for economic and racial justice, the 2020 racial reckoning was led unsuccessfully by “a Black professional class whose interests and biases are not the same as that of the median Black voter.” They were joined, he writes, by “strivers who question the value of striving, affluent critics of affluence whose behaviors deepen economic inequality, and white people who are arch critics of whiteness.”
and:
DeBoer argues that the failures of left-wing movements are not inevitable, and a class-focused politics that can win is not just possible, but imperative. As deBoer explained it to me, “Basic economic anxieties are understood by the large majority of the American people” and any good — morally and politically — left-of-center politics would start there.
“If it’s true that the left is not appealing to the working class,” he said, “then that is a failure of the left and not of the working class. We have to do a better job.”
What do you think? Is focusing on the basic economic, housing, and education issues more urgent that the participant of transgender people in women's sports? These are controversial issues, and one might say the left can and should do both. However, we have seen that this multi-mode approach doesn't seem to get you much as the Elite, with their freedom from need, focus more on the liberty side and inadvertently draw out the frustrations and prejudices of the groups they claim to want to help. Is there a way to couple liberty and economic issues without drawing the ire of those you want to help and without giving ammunition to Right?
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