This is really good, but I’m way too tired to try and summarize it even a little as an introduction. Just read it and see what you think.
Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger
After seeing one of the latest bursts of Outrage on the Internet™ (this one over whether Sanders’ supporters’ sexism is what’s holding Kamala Harris back from being the new face of the Democratic Party), I thought it would be a good idea to back off and look at why we have these intra-party fights so regularly.
As shouldn’t surprise anyone, political parties aren’t a very good proxy for political ideas, especially in the US where parties are large coalitions. So I spent some time trying to break down US politics not along the axis of party, but along the axes of the major ideologies which drive people. This ended up with a set of seven ones which are particularly prominent right now: Economic Justice, Social Justice, Western Libertarianism, Free-Market Purism, Christian Conservatism, White Americanism, and the Comfortable Middle.
By looking at what these ideas are and how they relate, and how political parties exist on top of them, we can start to see how arguments like these are inevitable – and what they really mean.
https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/the-axes-of-american-politics-e04713b28f40