I see people complain about identity politics all the time, but when it comes down to it, the individual issues that fall under that umbrella are things that people deeply care about and can’t just be dismissed.
If I woke up tomorrow I think the supporters of each of these could just about flip and they'd be no worse off from a principled perspective. They just need to make sure those others in their identity group are on the same page.
“Identity politics” are generally considered to be issues related to things like race, gender, social class, etc
I realize it’s seemingly a small difference or amounts to the same thing, but not making the distinction really muddies the conversation.
This is much larger and intractable than partisanship.
Identity politics and partisanship have fairly well defined meanings within political discourse, and so when you say “identity is the problem” the assumption for many people is that you’re talking about issues like BLM, trans issues, etc.
I know a lot of people who vote without even really reading what’s on the ballot. They just go with whatever option has D next to it. Others do the same but for R.
Personally I can’t vote so it’s mostly an interesting phenomenon to observe
To attempt to be helpful, I’d suggest that what you’re referring to is more of an issue of uber partisanship than identity per se.
You can see this in how people say “I am a democrat/republican”. They don’t say vote or belong to or member of, people very explicitly talk about it as an identity and both or all parties encourage that.
The Ds assume I'm an R, and the Rs assume I'm a D. My voter registration says "Pacific Green" and I vote Green/Independent most of the time when possible.