That was the whole impetus behind the adoption of "identity politics" by a corrupt Democratic party establishment who had completely sold out their traditional base of working people to Wall Street. Their continued push to make society's problems all about "identity" instead of economic inequality (You can still hear the cries of "race not class!") was a strategy deliberately employed by the scions of the Democratic party firmly entrenched in the ruling class. Have no doubt that they are out in the Hamptons right now, rubbing shoulders with billionares and oligarchs crying about racism and 54 genders while countless millions of Americans are mired in poverty, and hundreds of millions more are one medical emergency or minor crisis away from homelessness. Those at the DNC and the Center for American Progress and a dozen other neo-liberal think tanks collecting millions a year to maintain the economic status-quo have everything to gain and nothing to lose by continuing to polarize people based on "identity" in an effort to distract them from the profound structucal problems in our economy and our society. Unless and until people wake up and eject these grifters from the halls of power the Democratic party is destined to look very much like the Republican party, just peddling a different brand of bigoted idiocy to keep poor people from supporting their economic interests.