if there is anything many people are against is these election times,“ Identity Politics ” a phase that covers a mulititude of sins. The author Stanley Fish American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual.he has taught almost everywhere but he seems to think people have different outcomes of who they think should be in office .Just reading the title of the essay “When Identity politics is Rational” pretty easy to tell whats its going tot be about having equal rights to something or being fair . The purpose for the author writing this essay was to let the audience know that it does not matter what the skin tone of a person is nor how they look if they are male, female or if they are black and white . the people should