You're the one talking about BLM. You're the one talking about "Black". I happily said "anti-vax" was an identity marker. The relevant comment here, and conte

You're the one talking about BLM. You're the one talking about "Black". I happily said "anti-vax" was an identity marker. The relevant comment here, and context, is the use of the term "discrimination" by the right wing. And indeed, see for example, the recent CIA advert using "equality, diversity" and various identity markers. The unifying phenomenon isn't political -- even if we take BLM itself to be a purely political manifestation. The unifying phenomenon has to account for the alt-right alongside BLM. What is occurring ACROSS the political spectrum is a new civic religious awakening. This fervour you have, as a political hobbyist, is at base an identity fervour. Much more akin to a religious fervour. You are commenting on a website advertising your identity. You aren't on any barricades. The US, and to some degree the west, is undergoing a religious revival disguised as a political movement. It may contain them ("BLM", "Capital Riot", etc.) -- but the social transformation is one purely in the space of "signification" (identity). The capital rioters, and the blm activists -- the TV evangelicals (fox, colbert) -- the CIA with its "diversity" -- celebrities with their metoo opportunism -- your local MegaCrop with its "heartfelt commitments" to the new dogma. This is a religion. It isnt a politics. It exists purely in the space of identity, signification, public professing. Trump is the perfect non-political president in this style: a person elected to do nothing political, and everything "religious" -- to be seen to be saying, not to be seen doing. This is all of the same kind: the new activist left, the alt right, the CIA and Google. It's a religious awakening bordering on a hysteria.