I don't get it... just how many people have to even interact with trans athletes IRL? Or have some "scare" with a trans person in a bathroom? Or be forced to watch something 'woke' or whatever. Who TF loses sleep over this?
Meanwhile, this is why we're miserable:
And this is one of many reasons we will get even more miserable (as an increasingly large part of the US budget will be interest... not even going to think about climate here, or how much steeper that line is now):
And we just obliterated the two groups who wanted to do something about it (liberal socialists and debt hawks) and elected both of their polar opposites all in one package who openly swore to make those issues significantly worse.
...I know Lemmy will hate this, but maybe the Democrats need to "adopt" and reform the old fiscal conservatives in the GoP. Basically become this "tax the rich" party, where taxing the living shit out of billionaires and saving your children is literally the party creed instead of a hollow neoliberal byline, but balancing the budget and trying to reduce spending attracts entities that would traditionally skew Republican.
There is obviously public sentiment for this, and the tremendous irony is Trump is the only one sucessfully tapping it.