Republicans Are Fooling Democrats on Kids’ Online Safety.::A bill before Congress would help the far right advance its ideological war—but Democrats apparently haven’t noticed or don’t care.
When one side is suspiciously quiet or supportive about legislation that’s against their publicly stated goals, it’s because they secretly want it too.
There are a fair number of Democrats who think abandoning trans issues is the right path to take to make themselves more acceptable to “centrists” reasoning that the democrats will make things better in the long term when they have the safety to do so…
But they have no idea how much damage can be done. How many people in that time will give up hope that things will be better or who will be driven to that point by feeling alone and weird because they don’t see themselves reflected anywhere and there’s no one out there to tell them that people like themselves exist and that their lives are not always defined by pain, loneliness and want.
When people act like it’s something that should just be put off so some bigots feel like maybe they might halfway consider voting democrat (which they usually don’t. Even some of my trans accepting friends who agree with all the leftist talking points still self identity as conservative in their heart of hearts in part because they’ve been brainwashed to equate the word “conservative” with “reasonable” ) they forget that so many of us are down to clinging to the very bricks by our fingernails. It’s quite in character for the Democrats to shelve trans issues to try and appease Republicans by trying to wheedle and play nice to encourage them not to be horrible by trying to become some sort of model of respectable comprise instead of finding new ways to defend against and fight the systemic prejudices and correct the disinformation surrounding trans health care… News flash to Democrats. Republicans will never wake up and see you as the model Paladin of democratic dignity and process. They will never be courted to be better if you compromise now so they might owe you one later. They don’t ever pay back those favors for the compromises you make. They will just take every concession and compromise and turn around and call you obstructionists. You just will lose more ground until eventually there’s none left to hold.
