Hey, anyone who was pushing people to not vote for Harris before the election want to weigh in? Still confident in your decision?

I voted for the Dems in 2024. And honestly, I wish I hadn’t. I was disgusted by their stance on Palestine, but I figured at least they would support trans people against conservative extermination efforts.

For my vote and vocal support, how did Dems reward me? Democrats rewarded me by voting for the first anti-LGBT federal law in 30 years, willingly sentencing several hundred trans children to death for cheap political points. All Republicans had to do was attach their extermination persecution bill to a “must pass” defense spending bill, and Democrats folded like a house of cards. And they also refused to stand to defend the first trans person elected to the House. I have no doubt that this pattern will continue. To laws that must pass to fund the government, Republicans will just attach one rider after another that strips my civil rights away one at a time. And Democrats will tit tit and say, “well, I really wish we could prevent Republicans from murdering innocent people, but this bill simply has to pass, so our hands are tied.”

Even AOC, who was one of the few people to say anything in defense of the new trans representative, didn’t have the courage to actually stand up for trans people directly. She said bathrooms bans were bad because cis women might get caught up in them. And they demonstrated this complete surrender to fascism before Trump even came into office.

In the end, I did not get the satisfaction of a clean conscience. I held my nose and voted for a pro-genocide party, because I hoped they would at least stand up for my rights. But I didn’t get even that. Instead I got a party that is perfectly willing to throw people like me to the wolves, as long as Republicans give them a fig leaf excuse to use. Honestly, I wish I hadn’t voted for Kamala. Democrats aren’t going to stand up for my rights, and I still have the guilt of voting pro-genocide on my conscience.

I suppose it should have been pretty obvious. Dems were willing to throw one minority group to the wolves for political expediency, why wouldn’t they do it to another?

All of this to say “democrats bad because republicans”.

You can argue on whether or not the bill was “must pass” but let’s be honest here, there weren’t many other options.

Unless you have a solution? I’m not just defending democrats blindly here, I’m very open to hearing of an alternative way to have handled this.

You refuse to vote for the bill that targets a minority group. Even if that means shutting down the government or delaying a crucial defense funding bill. Ultimately it would be the Republicans’ fault for attaching extraneous shit to the must pass defense bill.

If Democrats will vote with Republicans and not fight against them, then there is no difference between the two.