Since liberalism cannot offer the usual economic reforms--higher wages, shorter hourss, social safety nets, etc., because the capitalist system cannot afford them, what will liberalism offer now? I contend that it will offer nothing but unbridled, 24-hour-a-day identity politics. Identity politics is defined as followed: The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around belief systems, programmatic manifestoes, or party affiliation, identity political formations typically aim to secure the political freedom of a specific constituency marginalized within its larger context. Members of that constituency assert or reclaim ways of understanding their distinctiveness that challenge dominant oppressive characterizations, with the goal of greater self-determination.
The Democratic party long ago embraced identity politics and abandoned any semblance of class politics. Now it has nothing to offer workers, and so, with the help of its media mouthpieces, it puts identity politics on display. The election of Obama and his Supreme Court nomination are the latest cases of identity politics trumping all.
What else does Liberalism have?
See:
http://www.legitgov.org/comment/rec_report_181208.html