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8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students
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Trans people aren't welcome in your tent. They upset the fascists you're trying to impress.
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.
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.
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.
He doesn't like the ideas.
You can just say what you mean about trans people without ascribing it to one of the bigots you admire.
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.
BlueMaga scum are every bit as loathsome and deplorable as the regular kind, holy shit
Got under your skin by saying that your only policy is bad, huh?
You will abandon any constituency not named netanyahu.
It's unfortunate that you demand solidarity while simping for bigots like these 8.
I'm sad that democrats can't seem to stop supporting genocide and bigotry.