at least for the next four years
Maybe two if enough people get off their asses and vote during the midterms.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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Understood; I'm referring strictly to damage control.
After what happened in November, baby steps in two years are preferable to nothing for four.
Voting has limited utility when Democrats are willing to throw trans people under the bus to get "must pass" legislation through. Republicans just need to attach their trans extermination legislation to bills that fund the military or other key government functions, and the Dems will vote for it in large numbers. Biden just signed a bill that will kill several thousand children, and even lamented the anti-trans provision in it, as he just signed it anyway.
Republicans just need to attach their trans extermination legislation to bills that fund the military or other key government functions, and the Dems will vote for it in large numbers.
Yeah, it sucks when that happens; then if the Dems don't vote for it, it gets framed by the Republicans as they only care about LGBTQ issues.
edit: For what it's worth, have a look at this:
Democrats will lean on this tactic to take on Trump during his second term
I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to leave the US, unless they somehow lock borders for us in the first few months. Feel like everything I've worked for here is one step sideways two steps back. Can't do it anymore I'm burnt out and it's getting more dangerous every day
You know, it's a bit of a relief to see this title.
A few years ago, I was talking about the fight for trans issues being an actual war that had only been violent on one side, with the other being victimized. I got some strange looks irl, and the usual nasty stuff online.
It is a war. It may not currently include military action, but there are absolutely armed enemies, including state actors, causing direct casualties.
Think of how much time Democrats have had to set protections in place for minorities. There's no one in politics that is both on our side and capable of helping us if we aren't wealthy straight white Christian men.
The wildest thing to me is realizing that while many of these people are entirely just in the pocket of the donor class. A lot of them genuinely believe that they can just tinker around the edges and things will just magically get better over time. And that this fact makes it okay for them to enrich themselves because all they need to be is a faithful steward of the institutions because inevitably the moral arc of history bends toward Justice.