I’ve never met an identitarian, or knew of such a group. A universalist sounds like someone who believes in the worth and value of everyone. Class exists clearly and is universally employed. It’s existence has meant vast and harmful disparities from the beginning of a civilized country until now (by civilized I don’t mean well mannered but the started of an organized nation state under a unified system of central control the uses money and force to organize a system of laws and control).

The division has always been so stark, with kings gathering taxes or tributes in return for “protection”, power, formerly recognized land rights. There were a wealthy few, a growing small merchant-scholar class, and the masses of farmers, the poor. The problem now is that the disparity has never been greater, and I’m just talking about America where Apple and Microsoft are both valued at over $2 trillion dollars. Never has so much wealth been generated for so few in such a short amount of time (in under two years since the pandemic began, when there were no trillion companies and that seemed unimaginable and distant. But never has the problem been easier to fix. We have the computing power, the vast new wealth that is vastly immorally if not evil, the intelligence, the means. All we lack is the will. Greed is in the way.
There is no senator that is not a millionaire, whose wealth derives from their spouse and stocks tips. Bernie’s wife’s millions or Joe Manchin’s wife and daughter yearly million in payout from their coal trading company. And those are the democrats. The republicans have almost naked greed and secret payouts. Policy can’t be passed because this wall of senators who are blocking meaningful, fair change for the poor, are encircling the rich. A third party is needed who can break this iron grip. The illusion of the single politician championing the rights of the poor—Bernie Sanders, Alessandra Cortez—is an illusion, a meek farce, a false hope.

But forcing corrections through stopping racist voting laws and reversing policies that end up targeting race predominantly is the only way to end the separation of the poor. Racist tactics are used to divide and will continue to be, and will be successful, as this division is easily visible to the eye, while the division of values is invisible. Seeing two individuals worth collectively over $200 billion dollars eat a hamburger together at McDonalds (Warren Buffet and Bill Gates) presents a picture to whites of hard working whites who achieve greatness because of genius to the average white, while a burger and cherry coke symbols what they do, wear they go. It’s a brilliant PR move by them.

But it is a false image. They both created wealth not by any extreme stroke of intelligence or hard work, but through a series of deals with big financiers that backed their stocks and purchases. Until we tear down the false values embedded in this image and starting seeing the super rich as relatively normal and no more smart or deserving of their wealth then an other college educated person, and show their greed for the evil villainy it is, then we can’t get the poor together untied into a real political force to change the system. Something has to happen, but the only injustice people feel right now is from Black Lives Matter, a movement losing a bit of momentum but not completely. There is collective marching or moral outrage that has consistently worked. A bit marching for $15 dollars an hour, a bit of Wall Street Sucks that fizzled out, some striking here and there. The union busting consulting industry is a $350 million dollar a year and growing business. Only three Starbucks in a Buffalo were unionized. Starbucks spent millions to stop it. But the poor don’t have the time or money to hire good PR agents. The question is how, when. Keep thinking of solutions.