Hmmm... I think that the issue with defending trans people has little to do with trans people and everything to do with "defending". The best way to defend them to instead of getting sucked into an issue that should require no explanation — defending the rights of individuals to do with their own bodies whatever they wish — having an OFF…
Hmmm... I think that the issue with defending trans people has little to do with trans people and everything to do with "defending". The best way to defend them to instead of getting sucked into an issue that should require no explanation — defending the rights of individuals to do with their own bodies whatever they wish — having an OFFENSIVE strategy. The R party is vile and contemptible, and the only reason why anyone votes for them is because the dynamics are always allowed to be the same:
Rs Attack
Ds Defend
This means:
D values are ALWAYS under scrutiny
R values are NEVER under scrutiny
And Dems are just too gullible and self-centered to accept that in this dynamic your BEST outcome is a draw, and the alternative is ALWAYS a LOSS of ground.
This is true for virtually EVERYTHING Dems care about.
You talk about labor. Guess what, we've been losing on LABOR since LONG before trans was an issue.
Rs have been on the attack on Labor since the 70s.
Dems have ONLY LOST ground since.
Why? Because Dems are ALWAYS on the DEFENSIVE, even though it's Rs that have OBLITERATED the middle class with Reaganomics/Trickle-Down bs.
Again, if you're still thinking that it's a policy problem, you're woefully misguided and falling prey for the very failure of STRATEGY that has plagued the democratic party for the last 50 years.
I’m just going to stick with trans for now but understand that I am not a Republican Or Democrat.
What I am is a hard working construction worker who is PRO UNION to my core.
I’m still amazed as well as pissed off at how easily the Dems more or less allowed President Trump to essentially gain their support.
It’s vital they learn to remember who their friends were for decades.
I will happily read your outline for a book, as well as consider every point you make. What I will not do it just Resort to name-calling as opposed to critiquing and engaging your thoughts.
I am not a bot, I’m not an algorithm, and I certainly am not a reactionary man who just follows the crowd.
I’m absolutely willing to have an open mind as long as you keep the dialogue open to what concerns me. I promise you if the Democrats continue to just ignore even one point that is important to many of us., they’re just not gonna be able to break out of the cycle of all or nothing.
I will tell you more about my family’s past and how much of my views on politics were shaped by the history where they came from, what they lived through as well as what they viewed as very dangerous too, our future.
The Trump bad was good. It’s just caveman thinking., and more importantly is boxing them into a corner that gets smaller and smaller and smaller.
We don’t have the agree on everything but at a minimum we should agree on the biggest issues facing our republic.
To be honest with you, it’s almost impossible for somebody like me to be able to even reply to more than one post without the labels that follow my critique on why Kamala lost.
You might think the same as many of the conservative replies are no better.
What’s important is that we actually just communicate with each other with words instead of reactionary over the top replies that do nothing to move the country forward.
I might not always have the time to reply right away, but I promise you I will reply. Godspeed..
While there could be some nuance, I think I agree with 100% of what you have here.
It borders on absurd that Trump was able to gain union support, and I blame Dems as much, if not more, than Trump (not sure where your split would be).
What makes it worst to me is the fact that Biden was objectively better for Unions than what Trump had been in his first term, while Trump was literally sitting with Elon and laughing at the idea of firing people trying to unionize. To top it off the Biden admin was the most pro worker/middle class/labor/union administration in ~80 years. This is objectively, verifiably true: from his anti-trust policies going after monopolies and unfair practices via the FTC to his pro-labor/union work via the NLRB. And yet, they COMPLETELY failed to develop a message that would get this across. More importantly though, as you suggested earlier, Rs have so succeeded in tarring and feathering that Democratic party that I'm uncertain that this message could just be delivered as is in a way that anyone not already a Dem would even consider looking at it.
It's unfortunate that this is the case, but it is. It goes way back to Rush Limbaugh, and then to Newt Gingrich, and how they made it OK to demonize the other party.
And again, as much as I wish this weren't so, and as much as it is unfortunate that it is, this is reality.
Now, I'm not suggesting that Dems should just start name-calling Rs the way Rs have done for decades. No, I'm saying they should be on the offensive, calling out the ways in which Rs have COMPLETELY betrayed our country. From the way they corrupted Christianity (did you know for example that Christians—except for Catholics—didn't start caring about abortion until the late 70s? I still have some incomplete writings on this subject to be published, but you can look into Paul Weyrich weaponized Christianity into an arm of the R party), to the Southern Strategy, to Deregulation: all of it has been 0% about improving American lives and 100% about consolidating power in the hands of a very few at the cost of everyone else by sowing division while strip-mining communities out of their resources . And this is THE message you will never see leave the lips of a Dem. I still can't tell if it's spinelessness, incompetence, arrogance, or what, but they will just never SPEAK the words that need to be said for America to realize that the R party is a big con against the working/middle class
Hmmm... I think that the issue with defending trans people has little to do with trans people and everything to do with "defending". The best way to defend them to instead of getting sucked into an issue that should require no explanation — defending the rights of individuals to do with their own bodies whatever they wish — having an OFFENSIVE strategy. The R party is vile and contemptible, and the only reason why anyone votes for them is because the dynamics are always allowed to be the same:
Rs Attack
Ds Defend
This means:
D values are ALWAYS under scrutiny
R values are NEVER under scrutiny
And Dems are just too gullible and self-centered to accept that in this dynamic your BEST outcome is a draw, and the alternative is ALWAYS a LOSS of ground.
This is true for virtually EVERYTHING Dems care about.
You talk about labor. Guess what, we've been losing on LABOR since LONG before trans was an issue.
Rs have been on the attack on Labor since the 70s.
Dems have ONLY LOST ground since.
Why? Because Dems are ALWAYS on the DEFENSIVE, even though it's Rs that have OBLITERATED the middle class with Reaganomics/Trickle-Down bs.
Again, if you're still thinking that it's a policy problem, you're woefully misguided and falling prey for the very failure of STRATEGY that has plagued the democratic party for the last 50 years.
I’m just going to stick with trans for now but understand that I am not a Republican Or Democrat.
What I am is a hard working construction worker who is PRO UNION to my core.
I’m still amazed as well as pissed off at how easily the Dems more or less allowed President Trump to essentially gain their support.
It’s vital they learn to remember who their friends were for decades.
I will happily read your outline for a book, as well as consider every point you make. What I will not do it just Resort to name-calling as opposed to critiquing and engaging your thoughts.
I am not a bot, I’m not an algorithm, and I certainly am not a reactionary man who just follows the crowd.
I’m absolutely willing to have an open mind as long as you keep the dialogue open to what concerns me. I promise you if the Democrats continue to just ignore even one point that is important to many of us., they’re just not gonna be able to break out of the cycle of all or nothing.
I will tell you more about my family’s past and how much of my views on politics were shaped by the history where they came from, what they lived through as well as what they viewed as very dangerous too, our future.
The Trump bad was good. It’s just caveman thinking., and more importantly is boxing them into a corner that gets smaller and smaller and smaller.
We don’t have the agree on everything but at a minimum we should agree on the biggest issues facing our republic.
To be honest with you, it’s almost impossible for somebody like me to be able to even reply to more than one post without the labels that follow my critique on why Kamala lost.
You might think the same as many of the conservative replies are no better.
What’s important is that we actually just communicate with each other with words instead of reactionary over the top replies that do nothing to move the country forward.
I might not always have the time to reply right away, but I promise you I will reply. Godspeed..
While there could be some nuance, I think I agree with 100% of what you have here.
It borders on absurd that Trump was able to gain union support, and I blame Dems as much, if not more, than Trump (not sure where your split would be).
What makes it worst to me is the fact that Biden was objectively better for Unions than what Trump had been in his first term, while Trump was literally sitting with Elon and laughing at the idea of firing people trying to unionize. To top it off the Biden admin was the most pro worker/middle class/labor/union administration in ~80 years. This is objectively, verifiably true: from his anti-trust policies going after monopolies and unfair practices via the FTC to his pro-labor/union work via the NLRB. And yet, they COMPLETELY failed to develop a message that would get this across. More importantly though, as you suggested earlier, Rs have so succeeded in tarring and feathering that Democratic party that I'm uncertain that this message could just be delivered as is in a way that anyone not already a Dem would even consider looking at it.
It's unfortunate that this is the case, but it is. It goes way back to Rush Limbaugh, and then to Newt Gingrich, and how they made it OK to demonize the other party.
And again, as much as I wish this weren't so, and as much as it is unfortunate that it is, this is reality.
Now, I'm not suggesting that Dems should just start name-calling Rs the way Rs have done for decades. No, I'm saying they should be on the offensive, calling out the ways in which Rs have COMPLETELY betrayed our country. From the way they corrupted Christianity (did you know for example that Christians—except for Catholics—didn't start caring about abortion until the late 70s? I still have some incomplete writings on this subject to be published, but you can look into Paul Weyrich weaponized Christianity into an arm of the R party), to the Southern Strategy, to Deregulation: all of it has been 0% about improving American lives and 100% about consolidating power in the hands of a very few at the cost of everyone else by sowing division while strip-mining communities out of their resources . And this is THE message you will never see leave the lips of a Dem. I still can't tell if it's spinelessness, incompetence, arrogance, or what, but they will just never SPEAK the words that need to be said for America to realize that the R party is a big con against the working/middle class