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just because they abandoned you and blamed you for losing the election? naaah they're fine. too bad they're gonna have zero power now.
Democrats have forgotten their history. They like to say that trans rights are a "distraction." They forget that not only were trans people some of the first victims of the Holocaust, but that liberal papers like the NYTimes similarly dismissed Nazi antisemitism as a "distraction" as well. They predicted that, just like Trump and trans people, Hitler was just using Jews as a scapegoat to get elected. They thought that despite widespread antisemitism in Germany, it was just a campaign distraction. They thought there simply weren't enough Jews in Germany to make real oppression something worthwhile for the Nazis to pursue.
In pre-Nazi Germany, Jews represented about 1% of the population. That is the same portion of the population that trans people represent in the US today.
The Theatre Of Identity on both sides of the aisle in the US was always bullshit to try and get more votes, if done differently:
Mind you, this is a pretty common pattern in other countries with electoral systems that boost a pair of "center" parties - there will be a "Right" one preaching some kind of nationalist pro-nation message and a "Left" one preaching anti-discrimination along racial/gender/sexual-orientation (but never wealth) lines, but they both serve the interest of the same people and will even get together to pass legislation that increases their own salaries, reduces the effectiveness of the fight against corruption or benefit some large well entrenched "regime" corporations who (by an amazing coincidence) employ in highly paid positions lots of politicians when they retire.
Yeah, I think dems don't take equality seriously at all. The cultural equality stuff they parrot is to distract from the fact that they'll never do anything to change the biggest inequality in the US, wealth and class. Even if it'd Freudian, in that they can point and say "see there? I want an equitable society" while ignoring the wealth inequality that is, statistically speaking, doing well for the college educated base they now encompass.
Itt: liberals still fever-dreaming that Democrats (as a corporate party, not the voters) are on the side of marginalized communities.
We largely couldn't in the first place, but thanks for the heads up. There was a hope, sure. But little trust due to little action.
It's a matter of degree. I felt a heck of a lot more protected than I had previously. Action? Not as much as there should have been but hardly zero.
You only get action when you're living in a blue city, under a blue state, with a blue President.
If anyone on the stack is Republican, your civil rights dissolve in the face of bureaucracy and legalese.
Republican courts, Republican governors, Republican sheriff's department, Republican school board... anything is enough for Dems to defer and compromise on your liberty.
They won't even stand up for their own elected Congressional coworkers to use the fucking restroom.
With Trump in office, you're going to see Dems retreat from any kind of LGBTQ rights on a sweeping scale. Just wholesale capitulation, as they blame their electoral defeat on being insufficiently servile to bigots.
If anyone on the stack is Republican, your civil rights dissolve in the face of bureaucracy and legalese.
This is so easily disproven and it's not the way our political system works. If it were, a single Republican in congress would kill a bill.
Republican courts, Republican governors, Republican sheriff’s department, Republican school board… anything is enough for Dems to defer and compromise on your liberty.
No, it's not and frankly that level of hyperbole isn't constructive.
With Trump in office, you’re going to see Dems retreat from any kind of LGBTQ rights on a sweeping scale.
What do you mean "retreat from"? If you mean being vocal on that stance I'll bet you a cookie you are wrong. What kind of cookie is your favorite? If you mean being actually able to effect any positive change, you are only right up until the midterm elections next year.
right so where do they turn?
idk, DDD ? We’re fuckin queers, dude. NO ONE has our backs but each other, no one ever has, no teacher no parent no church
well i have your back.
Nobody can trust the Democrats to protect anyone but the investors
Democrats were pretty cool about protecting trans people. But thanks to non-voters and $hill Stein voters (along with tens of millions of “low information” Trumpledorks), Trump has all three branches of government at his disposal.
Considering Democrats are now complaining that their protection of trans people cost them the election, I wouldn't say they were all that cool to begin with. They use trans people as a political tool and then toss them aside the second it becomes inconvenient for them to support trans rights. Just look at how the Democrats have "defended" their newest trans colleague.
Specific people in the Democratic Party have made those complaints. The party has not. Your comment is no different than stereotyping a group for the actions of individuals.
Has the party as a whole done anything to say otherwise? Silence is a different kind of choice.
It's crazy to see a party with a 3:1 fundraising advantage lose in a landslide and then blame the distant fourth place vote getter for the defeat.
Nobody seems to want to talk about how Democrats endorsed a genocide and how that may have shifted their popularity.
Just hours after Willis’s interview with The Independent, House and Senate negotiators revealed a bipartisan compromise spending bill that would ban military health insurance from covering transition care for children. On Wednesday, 50 House Democrats who previously denounced that provision voted in favor, and key Senate Democrats said they would reluctantly back it too.
The problem with democrats is that they always hold progressive action overhead like a carrot. "Vote for us, we'll establish trans rights/universal healthcare/codify roe v wade!".
Then they don't do it because they want to use it as a fundraising and election platform next go around. If they just did things when they had power people would be more willing to vote for them.
And yes, I know that there are Republicans and independents blocking progressive action. But that doesn't excuse the DNC from doing what I described above as well as constantly shitting on popular progressive candidates.
If you've got better politicians with a chance of winning, vote for them.
If not - don't let actively malicious bastards take over, just to prove a point.
Voters: Not enough votes for Democrats, letting the people who want to convert trans people and make hormone therapy illegal and God knows what else come to power
Republicans: Hey now that we're in power, we're going to convert trans people and make hormone therapy illegal and God knows what else
Voters: You guys really fucked this one up, I can't trust you
When Kamala Harris was the AG for California she was forced to defend a lawsuit where a trans woman in prison for murder wanted the state to pay for reassignment surgery. I was told that by supporting Harris I was transphobic and I should just admit it.
Here's what I'll admit: trans people who didn't support the Harris ticket as if their life depended on it fucked up.
Seriously, "fuck Democrats"? Okay Dude, I can see you don't want to be cheered up - c'mon Donny let's go get us a lane.