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81 Democrats Voted To Pull Care From Service Member's Trans kids. (www.erininthemorning.com)

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Contact your rep if they're in this list. More context at: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/first-major-congressional-fight-over

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

More apt, IMO: Republicans fear their base. Democrats hate their base.

The dems and their staff, pundits, op-ed writers, etc know that the people don't like war and that the hyper-focus on oppressing trans people, especially children, is weird and off-putting, there's tons of polling on this. But try to tell them that and they'll give you some west-wing brained horseshit about how actually it's virtuous and necessary to betray your base and triangulate yourself 1 inch to the left of the republicans.

I don't know if that's better or worse than being called a Russian bot for pointing this out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I mean yeah, the Democratic elite seem to have utter contempt for the party base and just ignore polling. Gaza is the perfect example of this. In the lead up to the election, it was abundantly clear that Kamala's "policy" (read: doing nothing) towards Gaza was tremendously unpopular with the party base. And they just... Ignored it. There are plenty of people who withheld from voting on that issue alone.