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Democrats Abandon Trans Voters at Their Peril (www.truthdig.com)

submitted 2 days ago by WoodScientist@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Liberals will lie to you and tell you to "just vote in the primary," but in reality they simply don't care about trans rights and do not believe there is ever a right time to challenge transphobic Democrats.

First primary: the transphobes hide their colors so you can't vote against them.

First general election: the snakes reveal their colors, but you can't vote against the traitors because "blue no matter who." They tell you to just vote in the next primary.

Second primary: the same people who tell you now "save it for the primary" shift their tune to "we can't give up an incumbent seat in a purple district!"

Trans people can see through these bad-faith lies. Yet of course, mansplaining trolls will be sure to breathlessly explain "lesser of two evil" math, as if that's not an argument we haven't heard a thousand times and already rejected due to its obvious flaws. There's never a shortage of arrogant cis people who think they know more about trans issues than actual trans people.

Liberals want your votes, not your voices. Be a good little minority and sit down. Shut up. Support the party. You owe the party your support. The party owes you nothing.

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[-] Azal@pawb.social 5 points 4 hours ago

Cool cool cool. So this means we shouldn't vote for them.

My trans friends on the Kansas side of the border had their drivers licenses pulled because the veto-proof Republican Supermajority in one night made all drivers licenses that had gender not of birth null with no warning and that's still currently being fought in the courts. Same time they put through a bathroom bill that has a bounty on it for people to call in where someone will have to go to court to prove themselves.

Somehow frankly shocked our Republican supermajority in MO hasn't done the same, but they're busy trying to take away our ability to pass laws because we managed to keep abortion legal. Oh... wait... they're using trans people as the way to entice people to vote the outlawing of abortion again this election.

But we shouldn't let the dems win.

I think a lot of yall saying this don't live in red states where the water is already boiling. Best of luck to you, we're trying our hardest to survive over here.

[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

I live in Missouri (the St. Charles area) and I don't support either of these bastards. Missouri is filled with morons though so we're better off getting air striked than ever seeing any positive change. Put an actual socialist in charge of this state instead of Dems that literally put in their campaign ads that they're conservatives who think the party went too far so they're running as Democrats.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago

You have electoral near-sightedness.

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