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Funny how the laws targeting trans highschool athletes... well under 1000 people total in the US... are passed by conservatives. Why do conservatives care so much about passing laws against such a small group? Why are conservatives spending nearly all of their political capital and goodwill on oppressing an incredibly vulnerable ~1-2% of the population?
Can you even name a single solution proposed by conservatives for problems like housing, healthcare, or climate change? I can name dozens from democrats and progressives alike.
Your comment is essentially one big gaslighting shit show. You chucklefucks wonder why the adults in the room are sick of your shit and are calling you clowns to your faces like you fucking deserve. It's cause you're fucking clowns.
They do that because they know they can push Progressives into some very awkward positions.
They are pushing progressives into the corner. Painting them as being out of touch with the pain felt by regular folks. The pain felt by the masses and instead focus in on some teeny, tiny, exceedingly small fringe group.
And it works!
This highschool thing is just the latest issue. A couple of years ago Democrats were wasting countless hours and effort trying to help DACA people.
Literally days before that topic hit the airwaves no one had heard of DACA and then all of a sudden they see Dems trying all these things to protect them. They'd try to get them healthcare. They'd trying to get them schooling.
I'd hear rumblings at my lunchroom at work from people who would busting their ass to pay for their kids schooling and they'd hear that Dems were trying to get these non-citizen free school. When you put it that way, the general public WILL agree that Dems are out of touch with regular folks.
Then some time before DAC or after DACA was the whole crisis at the border bullshit. Again, the GOP was able to successfully paint Democrats as caring more about foreigners than for the American people. It's a bad look to have when the American people are the ones who keep you in power.
Republicans are masters at finding ways to make Democrats look bad on topics that make Dems look like they don't support middle America and it's values.
Stop the nonsense.
When a plane is losing altitude, the warning message doesn't say to help your neighbor put on a breathing mask first. No. It says to put on your OWN mask first before you can help anyone else. Dems are constantly trying to help their neighbor all while they themselves lose key support amongst the people that can keep them in power.
Ah. Got it. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to know conservatives don't actually want me dead, they just want to make the dems look bad and make everyone feel better! /s
You know dems don't just focus on this like conservatives right? This is not the flex you think it is.
To the uneducated and religious South? You bet. And that's it. That's all they do outside of enrich themselves and their owners.
There are no solutions to be found with conservatives, just messaging and hate. They attack minorities and then spout how dems "hate you" because they show compassion and try to protect vulnerable groups. Imagine how the opioid crisis (which is utterly raping middle America) could be handled if conservatives spent a tenth of that energy on fixing it instead of attacking trans people, immigrants, and minorities.
You can say the messaging is off, but it's "poor messaging" vs "literal, honest to God fascists". There's no comparison. This'll be my last reply, you have nothing of substance to say.
The 50 are NOT more important than the 50,000,000.
Get over yourself.
You help the masses first with common, widespread problems. Those are the people who can in return get you reelected and help you grow the movement to help others. The 10 people here or the 20 people there or the 60 people over there don't. They don't move the needle when it comes to national support. They don't have the numbers to keep you in power and they only breed resentment when the masses see one political party waste all its time, money and energy trying to help them at the expense of the suffering masses.
You are selfish to put the needs of the teeny, tiny, fringe ahead of the millions who represent the masses.