The so-called "rage of white men" is a direct product of identity politics. I'm old enough to remember the 60s, when the ideal expressed by liberals, as I was back then, was for everyone to treat everyone else as individuals, with equal and inherent rights and responsibilities. Somewhere along the line, that all changed, and I blame the left and the Democratic Party, which has introduced and promoted identity politics by slicing and dicing the population into subgroups that they purport to represent. So now, when we have a "black student's union" or a "women's studies program," some white men naturally say, why can't we have the same thing?

Then we made it acceptable to tilt the playing field to make up for past injustice, and a lot of people say, hey, that's not fair to me, because I had nothing to do with all those past injustices. What Democrats and the Left have never wanted to understand is that when you tilt the playing field to make up for past injustices, there is also collateral damage- you create a whole new set of victims.

We, meaning society as a whole, have made it acceptable to identify with your particular tribe, and blame the other tribes, AS A GROUP, for your tribe's problems. Hence the rise of "white men" as an acceptable political interest group. A lot of them feel like they've been chased into a corner, sort of like prison where you either join your tribe or you die, because you've been excluded from the other tribe.

Try telling some poor white guy in a trailer park that he has "white privilege." Or tell him that he has to accept discrimination because he's a white guy. Or tell him that everyone else can have their own little club or interest group but he can't because it's racist. It doesn't bear logical scrutiny. We back these people into a corner and then we wonder why they act all weird about stuff like that.

"We need more women candidates." Now why is that statement acceptable? Aren't we all individuals? If a woman votes for a woman because she's a woman, why wouldn't a man vote for a man because he's a man? White men see all these interest groups that represent everyone else, and they wonder, where is my interest group? Why am I the only one who's not supposed to discriminate? Why is it okay for everyone else to discriminate?

I am not one of these white men that I am describing, but I think we have to make more of an effort to understand other people and why they act the way they do. You take some poor white guy who has lost his job, or feels like he might lose his job, and then you tell him you've tilted the playing field against him to make up for past injustices, and then he looks at the Democratic National Convention and he sees "We're gathered here today to represent every group who's ever been victimized by white men," and how is he supposed to feel?

Then the Democrats say, "Oh, my gosh, we lost the election because we lost the poor white men who used to vote for us. How do we get them back?" How stupid can you get?

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