Ensign_Crab8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students
All but Fields represent swing districts, with Cuellar, Davis, Gonzalez, Kaptur and Gluesenkamp Perez considered particularly vulnerable in November’s election. (Fields’ safely Democratic district is likely to be eliminated by GOP gerrymandering, though he could choose to run for reelection in a far more conservative seat.) Republicans, who have seen the public turn against them on major issues like inflation and immigration, continue to believe they have an advantage on transgender issues ― particularly when it relates to how they are handled in schools and in kids’ sports. All of the vulnerable Democrats are likely to face attack ads on transgender issues in the fall.
The curse of the big tent. You accept conservative democrats who will break from the party sometimes or get a conservative Republican who will be a rubber stamp for Trump on everything.
I wish American politics were different, but here we are. If you want to change things then organize with your community, go down to your local Democratic party headquarters, and coopt their infrastructure from the ground up.
Or tell people to vote 3rd party (Any third party, it doesn’t matter!) and then whine online that suppressing votes for Democrats didn’t fix things, I can’t tell you what to do.
The curse of the big tent.
Your tent should try to welcome the left instead of fight them to impress the fascists you adore.
Oh shit, it’s ensign crab. I was afraid you’d killed yourself since you’re so upset about genocide [as long as being upset about the genocide is politically helpful to Donald Trump]. Glad you managed to soldier on!
And unfortunately yes, that does mean in some districts you can’t expect to support trans rights and win. Reality sucks. Its unfortunate you don’t have any solutions other than shitty devise commentary and voter suppression in leftist spaces.
The solution is easy. Offer progressive policies. The most transphobic piece of shit still wants healthcare. If offered universal healthcare, their opinion will be along the lines of, “yeah, I don’t like them trans people, but if I can afford to see my doctor then I don’t give a fuck”.
We see progressive policies win over folks all the time. That’s why people like Bernie Sanders can go on Fox, sit in front of a live audience of Fox supporters, and get that entire audience to support him and his platform by offering healthcare or affordable housing or any other progressive policy.
Establishment Dems know this but refuse to support progressive policies because then they’d actually have to do something beyond using the Republicans to scaremonger. If establishment Dems would just listen to their constiuents, we wouldn’t be in this mess. A majority of the blame lies at the feet of the Democratic Party.
Lol you are out of touch with reality friend. Besr case scenario the most transphobic piece shit is going to say “I don’t care if I can afford health care, I don’t want my kids getting molested by trans people”. More likely they’re going to say “Fuck off with your socialism, I don’t want your well fare and stop trying to sell my kids to trans pedohiles”.
Sorry reality sucks, but here we are.
If the world truly worked this way, then the Trump administration’s disparagment of the new Iranian Ayatollah being gay would work. Nobody gives a fuck if the new Ayatollah is gay because gas prices are ballooning out of control. The Right Wingers are trying everything to pin high gas prices on Iran, but people aren’t eating the shit they are serving. Sure there are a few crazies out there saying, “High gas prices are worth it to defeat the gay communist muslim terrorists”, but those people are a minority who do not need to be catered to.
You should not cater to the worst dregs of our society because they are an inconsequential miniscule outlier. Sure, the transphobe might claim that they hate trans kids getting healthcare, but they’ll still go to the hospital and get treatment when they fall ill, just like those vaccine conspiracy nuts who died of covid in the hospitals. Trying to appease them is stupid, especially when it costs you the majority as it did with Kamala Harris.
I appreciate your response and wish it were true.
If you believe it to be true and it’s as easy as just offering government sponsored health care to get elected then I encourage you to run for Congress on that platform. I think it’s a great plank, so once you get a campaign website setup please send me a link I’ll send you a donation and help out how I can.
Unfortunately it’s probably too late for this election cycle, but now is the time to start planning for 2028. Good luck!
There’s no need to be glib. Judging by your comments, you do not believe a better future is possible and are resigned to working with whatever the DNC offers you. Your writing seems resentful of anyone trying to make things better as if they are radical dreamers. We’ve seen progressive policies get progressive candidates elected, so I don’t know why you keep implying that America is not ready for these ideas.
Personally, I am not the type of person to lead from the front. I’m a door knocker more than a politician, which is why I’m in the DSA and work with other members to pool our power and get progressive policies passed. There is more than one way to be involved in politics. People like Mamdani or AOC have a wide base of support behind them; they are not changing things alone. Your implication that the only way to be involved in politics is to get elected only serves to discourage people from getting active in politics.
If you are not willing to be an active change to better things, the least you can do is get out of the way.
We’ve seen progressive policies get progressive candidates elected, so I don’t know why you keep implying that America is not ready for these ideas.
He doesn’t like the ideas.
Besr case scenario the most transphobic piece shit is going to say “I don’t care if I can afford health care, I don’t want my kids getting molested by trans people”. More likely they’re going to say “Fuck off with your socialism, I don’t want your well fare and stop trying to sell my kids to trans pedohiles”.
You can just say what you mean about trans people without ascribing it to one of the bigots you admire.
You brave soldier 😢😰 carrying on against all those mean transphobes out there 🤬😡🤬😤😡[as long as it helps keeps Republicans in power].
I don’t know how you have the strength 💪 to get up day after day and head into Lemmy and punish those evil Democratic voters 🤢🤮😡
🎉🎉🎇 Keep up the🎇🎉🎉 [leftist voter suppression] fight!
I don’t know how you have the strength 💪 to get up day after day and head into Lemmy and punish those evil Democratic voters 🤢🤮😡
I don’t think the voters are evil. I think the politicians are.
And I think that’s why you’re defending your fellow anti-trans bigots.