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Short Answer: Baby/Bath water idiom
Long Answer: Dems lose elections because sub groups hate someone they have 98% in common with than someone who likes to bomb children.
I disagree strongly with the Democratic party. I despise a good deal of their platform, and am disgusted with about 90% of those that are elected. To me, they are an insult and an embarrassment.
... and I still voted for them in the last national election. Nobody likes them.
I’ve started getting involved with my local Democratic Party. I no longer consider myself a Democrat, but they don’t need to know that, and I figure if I’m able to get more up close and personal, influence people in real time that would be a much better option than just not voting for these anti trans democrats or doing nothing.
This is the best tactic for those who can do it
Choosing between the party where every elected official wants to unalive you, vs the party where only a handful want to do the same…
Yeah, that is a tough one. Really difficult decision, there.
In the places where the blue candidate is a transphobe, it's transphobe vs transphobe
Yes, but if Dems remain in the minority, it’ll still be a Republican majority, giving them more time to dismantle democracy even further.
It’s the bigger picture which is most important. You cannot create lasting local change without removing the autocratic boot from above.
I mean, yes, let’s make these transphobe Dems as uncomfortable as possible. But America needs to roll back the fascism and authoritarianism, first. Without that first step, every other positive action is a house built on sand - it can be blown away from the top with infinite ease. And then it’s 1939 Germany all over again with pink triangles and pogroms aplenty.
And honestly, I see that outcome as the much, much worse one.
Yes, but if Dems remain in the minority, it’ll still be a Republican majority, giving them more time to dismantle democracy even further.
And if the transphobic Dems vote with the Republicans, trans people lose anyway. Democrats don't do party discipline, so the anti-trans laws get passed anyway under the guise of "concessions", so heads you're dead, tails you're still dead but someone somewhere feels bad about it.
The real problem is that no transphobic dem is capable of saving democracy.
Transphobic democrats are, at their very core, spineless cowards. They hold no real beliefs. There is no core to them. They simply follow the polls and hope to obtain power. They seek power for its own sake, not for what good they hope to do with it.
What the "blue no matter who" crowd forget is that saving democracy is unpopular. To truly save democracy, we're going to have to pass unpopular laws. We're going to have to rein in the power of the presidency. We're going to have to dismantle the post-9/11 security state. We're going to have to abolish ICE. But each of those things will result in headlines that Republicans will make great political hay out of. Abolish ICE? Some illegal immigrant is going to kill a white girl, and Republicans will be talking about it for years. Dismantling the surveillance state will actually mean we get hit with a few more terrorist attacks than we otherwise would.
Transphobe democracts are not going to save democracy. Saving democracy requires politicians who will look voters in the eye and say, "this is going to kill some Americans. I'm willing to let some Americans die if it means we save American democracy. Democracy is worth dying for." Can you imagine any of these spineless TERF democrats having that kind of moral conviction?
Democrats who vote against trans rights will also vote against any bill that's meant to seriously reinforce democracy. You can't save democracy by voting in transphobes. They lack the moral courage to save it.
You vote for them because they are more likely to change their tune than a republican.
Plus you do everything to make their life miserable until he changes his mind.
Vote for them and then get them to have pro-trans rights views. Like we did with Obama and gay marriage.
That's one way to do it. Sounds like throwing in the towel at first, but if their strategy was to shift the Overton Window, it might not be a bad plan to shift it right back.
I'm so tired of these people touching kids and then fucking with trans folks.
I mean it's pretty shit, but what are we gonna do, vote in the Republicans? I'm sure that will help trans people even more /s
Do people not realize Republicans won in their messaging? Everything related to trans support is MUCH lower than it was before. The best democrats can do is dogwhistle support, because it's very unpopular right now, which it's horrible that's the case but thats not the fault of the politicians who are trying to improve things.
They won in their messaging because no one defended it and instead caved to support it.
Dems have lost in all messaging. They won’t push the quality of living and problems of capitalism, instead they agree to attack trans people.
There are a few exceptions, and they do well in their respective places when they actually push back. But most are cowards.
They didn't cave until they lost the messaging, and yes the messaging has been unbelievably bad. There's a series called the alt right playbook where one of the strategies is control the conversation, democrats are always playing defense saying no we don't want everyone to be transgender no we aren't giving 8 year olds hormones for no reason. That's just a losing strategy.
I'm not saying they couldn't be doing more, but it's like trying to stand up for black rights in an election in a community of racists, you're going to get swept by the guy who is openly racist. The media has massively failed us on the trans issue and now most Americans are anti trans, it sucks and I have trans friends who are super hurt by it, but I'm not going to let the fascist supporters win, when they are actively trying to kill Americans, and trans people, and the rest of the world.