Retired U.S. Army General: 'Identity Politics Is a Cancer'

I agree with the culture!! It is bad.

Yes identity politics has created such a huge mess in American culture. How did it begin? Think of this statement McFarland made:
“And I mean I just heard a statistic recently that about 80 percent of American kids consider themselves as just plain old Americans before they enter high school, and about two-thirds of them about halfway through college become hyphenated-Americans.”

Why does the hyphenated categorization exist? Decades of segregation politics. How hard would it be to remove those categories from the education system, census system, political system, business employment system, and yes the government/military system. My daughters are mixed and I plan to have them check “other” since it’s not accurate to call them Black/African-American just cause they are half Black. Identity politics is a result of outdated immigration system that sought to classify people.

The article kinda tried to weave a rug from a single thread (in my opinion), but it's definitely a valid point. What worries me is that (even among vets) it's got to the point where one's "position" on any issue "has" to be aligned one way, or the other, with little tolerance for "grey". For example, I don't have to be a "racist" to believe in secure borders, but I should also be able to argue for more humane, more efficient immigration policies without being called a "pinko commie". Granted, not everything is so ambiguous, or pliable...but if we can't debate towards compromise, and find common ground, it's awful hard to see how we maintain that whole, "united we stand" part.