The video is yet another case of Democrats resenting their base for expecting them to stand up for anything.
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."
“You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me”
The insane flipping back and forth in the video of declaring yourself pro-lgbt whilst signalling you’ll vote for anti-trans legislation, to then attack the person asking them obvious questions by declaring that the question implies because Republicans are in charge that they should adopt opposite positions and they’re not going to vote for things that are “unpopular”.
The democratic politician distilled: You need to vote for me because I support you and I’m not as bad as Republicans, but when it comes down to it I will throw you under the bus and get mad at you for asking me about it and implying I might not be a good person.
But swearing is a no-no so I’ll say Heck as I support you being oppressed by the state.
Goodness, I hope my basic human rights don’t become too unpopular.
Democrats will not protect us. Firearms will.
This is the Ratchet effect in action. Democrats did not heed the warnings about extremist right-wing propaganda spreading like wildfire. They now assume the voter basis is inherently fascist, and race to appease them.
Democrats are equally to blame for things, like the modern racist slave trade that is the “corrections” system. This puts them with the camp of critical-race-theory enemies. Many of them are transphobic as-fuck, which also puts them (partly) in the anti-gender camp.
I did not cite genocide and war-crimes in the above paragraph, because so many of you have made clear you are fine with it.
Centrists have made it clear, time and again, that they value middle-of-the-road fallacy above human lives, and they are willing to put those lives on the line to reifytheir trolley problem fetish. The centrist is someone who will literally say to Hitler “I will defend to the death your right to express your hate” and at the same time say to the trans woman “I will have to reduce your freedom of expression, because it is unpopular with my voter base, and we risk devolving into fascism”.
This is how we got here. These mfers come every 4 years begging for leftist and anarchist votes, because the alternative is fascism. But they were themselves fascist the whole time, only with a broader social support. Now they lose that broader social support because 10 years of relentless, ludicrously funded propaganda have shifted the discussion 100 years back, they now bend over backwards to earn that social support again. This in unscrupulous.
In turn, it lends legitimacy to neofascism and shifts the institutional landscape even further. We should not concede one inch to anyone trying to water down human rights for political gain. Human rights are to be taken as a whole, especially at the times that the most illiterate and unnuanced fragile white masculinity reclaims racism, homophobia, transphobia and ableism with renewed confidence, this is not the time to let them score popularity points.
In fact, we need to escalate. The more we trigger the fascist voter base the better. Destroy the common sense, of the equal-opportunity capitalism apologist social democrat.
With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?
Democrats need republicans because otherwise they’d be the conservatives everyone would be fighting to get out of government.
And this is why this country has gone to hell. Sorry, “heck.”
We’re going to get every fucking Dem on MAGA’s side because “baww, re-elections!” Fuck this shit. Get a fucking army, march into the White House and remove that fucking convicted felon from it who never should have been eligible for running for president in the first place, get Harris in there to fix his bullshit, and get this country back on track.
If that doesn’t happen, there’s going to be a mass exodus from this country because we’re absolutely goddamned fucked. Oh, sorry, “absolutely gat-durned clucked.” I forgot swearing was illegal now.
Let’s replace Trump with another pro-genocide nutjob. How’s that sound?
Hahaha oh my god march onWashington to install fucking Harris. LMAO
But… But… Trump’s a convicted felon (as opposed to all of the democratic leadership, who are felons, but have never been convicted)
You need a new party that is everything the republicans accuse the democrats of being.
We need to be the woke fascists they were hallucinating about.
don’t dilute the meaning of the word fascist by using it in this way. It doesn’t just mean “bad.” Fighting for equality is exactly the fight against fascism.
We have a couple. The Democrats keep suing them off of the ballots.
Can you link the recording?
heck
Willing to help kill trans kids, but cursing is too far!
It’s obviously not popularity that she is worried about be cause support for universal healthcare is bi-partisian and consistently polls extremely well, but you bet your ass this representative would find some reason to oppose it if it was ever in danger of passing.
“You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me”
And I don’t think I will vote for a representative who feels representing my interests is a burden.
Right to heck
What a fucking loser if she can’t even say hell she never supported trans rights in the first place
Empty Husk party.
I’m a Republican Voter who would NEVER vote Democrat because I’m a Republican but I APPRECIATE them Trying to cater to ME instead of their ACTUAL voters!
swap “republican” for “bolsonarist” and “democrat” for “pt-ist” and you’ve got brazilian politics in a nutshell.
You can do this on every liberal democracy.
Not surprised, democrats never actually did all that much to protect transgender people anyway. Support from democrats has always been paper thin at best (and I am being very generous here).
Democrats hated “the gays” too until like 15 years ago.
It’s the same as rainbow corporatism. It’s all a facade used for political expediency. It’s never actually about human rights. Both parties deserve the fates they get. Unfortunately they’ll do everything they can to take us down with them.
A lot of those Dems who hated gays 15 years ago are still in power, btw. They never got primary challengers and just remained in power for decades.
Some of them did get primary challengers, but the primary process is broken by design so that real primary’s rarely are able to happen at all. The amount of effort to successfully primary an incumbant is hugely imbalanced compared to just being the incumbent that if the incumbent expends the barest effort, they are all but certain to maintain their seat in most single-party states.
What a coward
What a democrat
