The democrats don't need to abandon identity politics, but talking about poverty helps minorities and white poor people. As it stands though, the Democratic pa

The democrats don't need to abandon identity politics, but talking about poverty helps minorities and white poor people. As it stands though, the Democratic party won't touch economic issues. They've got a supermajority in California , have a bill passed by the state senate for single payer healthcare (SB562) and the (democrat controlled) assembly shelved it.