Millennials replaced class solidarity with open aspirations to wealth

Evidence

Yet for all its focus on immutable identities like race, gender, and sexual orientation, Glee and its millennial viewers showed little interest in class solidarity. As millennials became strivers and hustlers, open aspirations to wealth replaced collective resistance. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 352

Categorization

• DEFINE: Offers a crisp comparative frame for understanding the era’s politics: single-axis identity politics coexists with the complete absence of class solidarity — a structural pairing that defines the period.
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s knowledge from Things Fall Apart and Parable of the Sower about how identity solidarity can coexist with stratified economics; also resonates with how the ‘omnivore monoculture’ thesis implies identity-based difference can flourish while taste/class difference collapses.