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.
Incorrect, my principles result in Lincoln ending racial slavery, averting countless deaths and suffering. Which you would refuse to do.
Lincoln wasn’t a Zionist giving a religious ethnostate weapons to genocide and ethnically cleanse an occupied population with US taxpayer money. Israel made their ambitions for Greater Israel known prior to the election - they had no intention of stopping at Palestine. In all likelihood, he would’ve gotten my vote despite my modern distaste for his white supremacist views. Back then, I likely wouldn’t have even known about those views. So in that case, it would’ve been a definite yes.
I didn’t vote for Biden in 2020 because of his Zionism. I knew what Zionism meant long before Oct. 7th and the genocide. Pointing out Biden’s Zionist views got me harshly downvoted and accused of antisemitism, no matter the timing or how much I wanted a Jewish man to be president.
There would have been no genocide if Bernie Sanders won in 2020 and the primary wasn’t rigged against him. Zero. Zilch. Bernie had my vote, without a doubt.
Zionists or those complicit in genocide will never get my vote. There needed to be a primary because there were/are plenty of people principled against Zionism and genocide. Including the many disenfranchised Muslim/middle-eastern Americans who would never vote for a person slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent people of their religion or ethnicity - with no signs of stopping.
If Kamala ran on not giving them weapons unless it was to defend themselves from e.g. Iran, that alone would have been a winning policy. Who the fuck cared about her not running any other substantive or progressive policies - that was all it took for her to earn my vote.
Instead of pushing for a primary, people like you accused me of being a single-issue voter and a purity tester for not wanting US taxpayer money to fund a genocide. Unfortunately, it’s not just a single-issue - it was many issues that were ready to be set aside considering the circumstances. Kamala played chicken with the country and drove it off the cliff, without a single thought in her mind to brake - because she is insulated from the consequences i.e. she had a parachute.
She still hasn’t admitted why she lost - the real reason, she just comes out of the woodwork every once in a while to blame everybody but herself. She isn’t a serious actor.