Why Elites Hate

The liberal contempt for middle America is baked into the idea of identity politics

Jun 06, 2017
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Most political commentaries, this one included, discuss the social dimension of contemporary political divisions.  Yet underlying the identity politics of the progressives that leads the ‘elites’ to hate the white tribe in middle America is a more fundamental problem:  the whole notion of ‘identity groups’ is tribalistic, and misrepresents the fact that the fundamental (and therefore unifying) characteristic of all is personhood.  The ultimate minority is the individual.

Human personhood is a consequence of a theological commitment, i.e. that each and every person shares the imago Dei.  There can be no healing of political divisions so long as the basic humanity of other persons is acknowledged, and we build on that common ground.

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