we have to guide the demographics properly, though.

a lot of my pushback is based in the idea that we're throwing away the youth vote to appeal to an unattainable fantasy (not my fantasy) - that the mainstream left is going to wake up one day and realize it's lost the younger generation by pushing this outdated burkean hippie vision of a religiously fluid & harmonious multicultural society, while young people don't even accept the reality of race any more and just don't want to talk about religion at all.

you have to get them while they're young. and, the mainstream left is in danger of permanently losing the culture war by refusing to burst it's own bubble, opening up a space in the spectrum for this reactionary "secular right".

young people may very well prefer what i'm saying to what breitbart is pushing. but, in the end, the bannonesque vision may prove more appealing than some politicized hipsterism fantasizing about a return to the 60s.

so, let's avoid this spectrum where the choice is between bannon and trudeau....

identity politics is cancer.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-bet-on-the-emergence-of-a-religious-left/