Fair

One of the things that has hurt the democratic party is called in the current vernacular, identity politics. This concept centers around the word fair. It says that certain things in the past were unfair and so the solution is to make new things unfair to try and equalize the playing field. The way to measure the success of this approach is to strive for equal results. When minorities achieve at the same level as Whites then we have reached equity. The impetus for this is the fact that not everyone is at the same starting point because of past injustices. In order to make up for this the rules are changed to give an advantage to one group. This is not for all things. For example, in sports only the best qualified get to play but in applying for a job as a firefighter the test is race adjusted.