Trans journalist Erin Reed has published a list of Democratic midterm candidates with anti-trans records, and the question she is forcing is one the party would rather not answer: if trans voters keep rewarding Democrats who harm them, what signal does that send? The calculation is real, the stakes are high, and there is no clean answer.
Might vote against their interests vs will pursue legislation that will legitimately harm them. Seems like an obvious lesser of two evils situation. Fixing the 2 party system is not the war of today. The war of today is preventing the takeover of fascism.
Democrats like Marcy Kaptur already have pursued legislation that legitimately harms us. Others like Talarico have signalled they will.
So what do you think the best course of action is?
The primaries have already happened. Nothing is going to change the candidates on the ballots unless someone drops out. As we’ve seen, this isn’t an issue that generates a big enough response for that.
We’ve seen the answer with Israel/Gaza. Sometimes you have to be willing to punish your own party in the general. The Democratic party has moved substantially on the Palestine issue over the last two years. That’s only happened because of Kamala’s loss. It never would have happened if she had won.
Btw, Talarico’s shift in messaging is likely to counter ads from Maga Inc with clips of him saying that there’s 6 biological sexes, Jesus was a radical feminist, god is non binary, and he’s a christian who hates christianity.
It’s best to not pay too much attention to campaign messaging. They’ll say what they have to say to win, so looking at their past stances and voting history is a better metric. He’s trying to win a seat in Texas, afterall.
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This is how we got here.
And not voting contributes to the right side of your (inaccurate and oversimplified) meme
It’s not actual elected representatives lying to us on the campaign trail and doing the exact opposite in the capital?
Remember the twenty ratfuckers who lined up to tell us they all had “the same policies as Bernie, but BETTER”???
It was the voters fault all along. Who would have guessed. Fuck me, right?
We got to vote for Bernie in the primary. Not enough people chose him over the “safer”, more conservative Biden (who definitely wasn’t advertised as having the same policies as Bernie). Biden was still way better than Trump, so we should have voted for him in the general. This isn’t complicated.
Think about it.
Biden was prematurely flung into the nomination on the eve of a pandemic in South Carolina. South Carolina’s electorate is made up of overwhelmingly Republican voting conservatives. They had an idle primary with no contest to Trump, and suddenly there’s a record SC Dem primary turnout? Republicans voted in an open primary anyways, because why wouldn’t an asshole do that? Republicans nominated Biden, a habitual lying senile genocidal racist rapist, because why wouldn’t an asshole do that? The disparity between Bernie’s policies being so so popular and the dogshit party’s refusal to enact democratic mandates is a dead end in a fatally flawed excuse for a democracy.
It’s only not complicated for liars and chumps. Which are you?
It’s hard enough to get voters to turn out for their own primaries. People don’t strategically vote in the opposition primary in significant numbers; that’s pure fantasy.
What South Carolina has, in addition to a lot of Republicans, is a lot of conservative, risk-averse, black Democrats. They don’t vote for progressives in primaries, because they believe (probably correctly) that white people won’t elect them in the general. That’s who nominated Biden.
It was an almost 50% increase in turnout from 2016. In an average open primary the strategic crossover is said to be 3% to 20%. That’s hardly insignificant numbers, nor a fantastical concept, and nothing was typical in 2020.
The Democratic party actively suppresses voter turnout . They use the same tactics the Republicans use in the general election, which often overlap. They’ll limit polling locations or forgo primaries completely when THEY determine THEIR candidate is “unopposed”.
And don’t get me started in all the ratfucking going on in caucuses or mid-contest rule changes.
It’s a corrupt corporate controlled party that’s leading the nation towards destruction alongside the Republican party, and nothing either of says will change that.
America is neither an open or free democracy, if it ever was one.
…and no alternative given, so that’s awesome.
These are the words of an entitled person, leading a charmed life right down the road from modern day interment camps.
Oh, cool, giving people no real viable option, then lecturing them on things like being “entitled” is going to be super-duper helpful in building a coalition to push back on conservatism. Thanks so much!
My guy, Biden is a conservative. Biden was propelled by a South Carolina primary that saw the highest turnout ever, which happened to correspond with an idle no-contest Republican primary with an unchallenged Trump.
Conservatives elected Biden. Dude was to the right of Reagan.
I’d rather see it all burn down than elect another genocidal Dem administration. At least now you can see your enemy for what it is, not that you care about anything but your own conveniences and privileges.
I won’t put mine over Gazan children, so think about how little fucks I give about yours.