Restraining Identity Politics

Identity politics only emerge when the democracy we practice is "thin democracy", in which democracy is reduced to a political battlefield revolving around the exploitation of primordialism for political gains.

More than mere pejorative, identity politics has become a frightening specter in this nation.

Unlike the political elite, the grassroots community does not appear to have the capacity to resist and recover immediately from the destructive effects of identity politics. In the absence of such capacity, the destructive effects are so tremendous that it will take them a long time to restore rationality.