My impression is that much of the left has become focused on a few systemic issues (feminism and gender, racism, climate change) and has entirely renounced obse

My impression is that much of the left has become focused on a few systemic issues (feminism and gender, racism, climate change) and has entirely renounced observing and interpreting reality in terms of more immediate causes and responsibilities. For example, it's not specific laws about schooling, welfare and justice that keep some US minorities in a state of relative poverty, it's a more vague "systemic racism" of which all are responsible, and nobody in particular. It's not foreign intervention and larger geopolitical games that cause wars in some countries, it's climate change- of which again, we're all responsible. It's not poor governance and booming birth rates that cause poverty and mass emigrations from certain poor countries- no, it's climate change again. These narratives seem very useful to maintaining the status quo and a certain US-aligned narrative. When was the last time you've read on a mainstream newspaper an analysis of the human costs of financing and arming the Syrian rebels for billions of dollars? Or an analysis of the reasons Putin would shoot himself and Russia in the foot by attempting to kill harmless opponent in the most obvious way? But no, we're too busy reading another article on why it cannot be tolerated that someone painted his face black for a carnival party or on how climate change is endangering the harvest of shrimps in a village of mud huts.