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I know this is going to be unpopular here but I will 100% tell you that there's a lot of people now voting for the GOP because they are upset about pronoun politics. My dad has voted Democrat every election his entire life because he is in a Labor Union. This time him and most of his union buddies voted Trump. My neighbor is hispanic and employs a lot of hispanic contractors. Most of them voted with the GOP because they are upset about how the schools are presenting pronoun policy. There's a lot of this out there. They can agree with the Democrat party in terms of healthcare, taxation, foreign policy, and a whole lot of other things but this one issue really drives at the core of what they think it means to be a human person ... and they don't like it.
And most of it is complete bullshit. They lie - they say teachers are letting students identify as cats and shit. Or with the sports stuff - the current outrage over a woman who intentionally went to a fencing competition that allowed trans women, so she could cause a scene. Amateur fencing is typically coed anyway - when I took an intro fencing class they paired us with whoever. The same woman had faced a man a few weeks ago even IIRC!
Then she’s claiming that she was afraid for her life - as if the brutish strength of anyone with an XY chromosome is going to make fencing deadly.
Democrats don’t give a shit about trans people and haven’t. Fox News and OAN and Alex Jones have Republicans convinced that middle school teachers are doling out puberty blockers.
I’m sick of this “Democrats are failing because of pronoun politics” because they haven’t done Jack shit for us.
Sorry to say, but your dad and his friends are dumb as shit.
"Someone asked me to use words they wanted to refer to themselves so I just had to vote fascist! ...I feel bullied, really."
People would rather destroy the planet, crash the economy, and send their countrymen to a gulag in El Salvador than respect someone's preferred pronoun
It’s become an overriding issue for them because the media they consume convinced them a trivial grammatical feature “really drives at the core of what they think it means to be a human person”. If the pronoun issue disappears, the same media will pick some other random issue no one currently cares about to elevate into another existential crisis—and idiots like Carville will keep taking the bait, believing the newest fake issue on the distraction treadmill is their last remaining obstacle to victory.
Sorry mate, I don't buy the excuse.
If this were true, then any reasonably intelligent person can put together a list of Pros and Cons and see that the pros massively outweigh the cons here. To still vote for the Con - the literal con artist - despite all evidence to the contrary, means 1) they're lying about why they vote, or 2) they're morons who are terrible at assessing values and threats, or both.
It's almost certainly #2. What are you going to do about it? Keep losing elections and getting nothing you want or make some Democrats more popular who may be a little wishy-washy on some of your issues but generally supportive of labor rights and not jailing people in El Salvador?
Well, don't be surprised when people start normalizing using ethnic slurs against Hispanic people. If you don't have the common decency to refer to people respectfully, why would you expect others to protect you from the same treatment?
I love this so much.
When the left of the party has a problem with centrists' genocide, we don't listen to them.
When the right of the party has a problem with trans people being alive, we listen to them.