Identity politics is the reimagining of America as not a united country or a united nation but as a confederation of identity groups, according to Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow on E Pluribus Unum at Heritage Foundation. “Some of these groups are considered to be oppressed and then one of these groups is the oppressor,” Gonzalez said on The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads” program. These groups have been created synthetically by activists on the left for the purpose of instilling the members of the oppressed groups with a sense of victimhood and grievances so they would act as a catalyst to change the society and to change America, Gonzalez said. This is consistent with the archetypal Marxist conflicts between “the oppressor” and “the oppressed.” Behind the identity politics is an attempt to transform American society and the United States into a communist centrally planned system. Gonzalez outlined this in his book, …