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[OC] Democrats in the 2020s
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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2026
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Democrats i.e. centrists seem to be dead set on throwing gender issues such as trans rights under the bus right now. I'm not even sure what they stand for anymore.
Trans issues are cheap that's why both corporate dems and GOP like to center on them .
Most people want to solve real issues - healthcare, social net, housing costs etc all of those require touching oligarchs and ofc dangerous
They aren’t that cheap. People are starting to figure out that if you’re not willing to stand up for some of us, you might not be willing to stand up for any one of us.
Either you stand for human rights or you don’t.
There’s a difference between
One focuses on identity pol while, two meaningfully helps those in need without requiring every voter to be as learned about gender identity as you.
I also don’t care for your vaguely accusatory tone. If you have a problem with me as a person be explicit or shut the fuck up.
I didn’t mean to say that having more knowledge on gender identity was a bad thing.
Politics is about getting enough voters to vote for you with a limited amount of words. Politicians do not have the power to educate, but they do make choices on what policies to focus on.
If those choices focus on dividing the working class we all lose, because some haven’t read Gender Queer that doesn’t mean policy can’t support LGBT+ it just isn’t the main focus to news.
To quote Mao:
Signaling that you are willing to compromise on trans rights is dividing the working class. Do you think trans people live off the air? Do you think they are all sitting on trust funds counting money? They are workers.
And more and more workers are realizing this. Solidarity is not some pick and choose we can let this guy get fucked if he’s unpopular enough. Solidarity is solidarity.
No one thinks trans rights should be the central guiding policy of the government, but just like anyone’s rights, it shouldn’t be something we compromise on.
as shitty as it is they stand for getting reelected, which when compared with “not the overt fascists” should be a pretty good platform… if only they learned something from trump and realized that being loudly pro-your-issues is a positive and being quiet and non-committal is a death sentence
being loudly “we can’t let this ever happen again and here’s how we strengthen the system” should be their platform