I'm sure this time we'll get a third-party President!
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I've seen a depressing trend of Democratic politicians embracing anti trans talking points and compromising gender affirming care for young people. This is extremely concerning as states and the federal government are undermining access to care now more than ever. Democrats standing by trans people has far more dire consequences now than ever, yet we're being treated as politically disposable by people who used to campaign on lgbtq issues like Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg.
I can't say I'm surprised. Liberal papers like the New York Times has been uncritically promoting unscientific transphobia for years that claims alternatives exist to gender affirming care. My guess is that people see a person transitioning as an unfortunate thing, desperately wishing there was another way. They ignore the fact that gender affirming care is both the best treatment for dysphoria, and one of the most successful treatments for any mental condition ever discovered.
To put it simply, making gender affirming care harder to obtain for kids will kill many of them. Kids being kept from care by their parents already drives people to suicide, and a slimy politician preventing supportive parents from helping their kids will do the same. Every time I see people claim these guys are our best shot at beating fascism, I die inside. I have no doubt that they'll eventually axe care for all adults like everyone who was originally "worried about fairness in sports" is currently pushing for. The only way they won't is if we make it a costly issue for them.
Your mistake was thinking that a political party like the Democratic party of the USA sees any social group as anything but a sum of votes to get them in power. If the sum gets negative they will drop support faster than the speed of light.
Never trust people who wants to actively achieve power. I don't know how to solve "politics" with this axiom. But experience and history has taught me that, people who seek power as not trust worth.
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If people want me to vote blue then surely they must disagree with the idea that Democrats have been continuously moving right.
How can Democrats dominate the popular vote and enjoy all this success when times are relaxed, yet we end up here? Now when times are precariously tough, voting blue is supposed to help?
Who knew "Vote for the lesser evil." was a synonym for "Vote Gavin Newsom." If I make a moral judgement and choose a lesser evil like accelerationism or nonviable third parties, suddenly "choosing a lesser evil" is wrong. People want to dish out top-shelf rhetoric with the force of a cannon but get mad when you take it seriously.
I've said it before, I'll say it again and again I don't care and I don't fear them, cause I can be the evil needed to kill the GOP death to the GOP
Oh my friend. You haven't figured out that the Democrats are just really "right light" without a backbone?
Would have they been better than Trump. 100% yes. But anything can be better than Trump' Republicans.
There is no real social left movement in the US. Maybe Bernie and AOC get close to it but still quite centrist.
So, the Democrats are the right throwing some social crumbs around but supporting regressive policies. Once people realize that, a real social movement can start.
I've known this for years. What I'm pissed about is liberal asshats who think transphobes are the messiahs who will save their already dead rule of law.