Mac1958
Diamond Member
So I stumbled on to these two pieces today:
‘Devastating Political Consequences’: One Error That This Senior Dem Thinks Cost His Party Big
Gavin Newsom Jump-Started a Conversation Democrats Need to Have
Both of them infer that THE BIG problem is the Dems' overemphasis on transgender rights alone. They focus in on that one (1) issue. Yes, this is an important issue and a spectacularly dumb political tactic, but the transgender stuff was only the icing on the cake. The bathrooms, the flamboyant transgender folks reading to young children in class. BUT...
... that was just on top of everything else that created such animosity towards the Left -- the whole PC/Identity Politics thing. The screaming of RACIST and HOMOPHOBE and ISLAMOPHOBE at everything that moved. The deplatforming of conservative speakers on campus. The safe spaces and trigger warnings. The punishment of employees who "offended" the wrong person. The destruction of family businesses because they didn't want to bake a fucking cake. The refusal to allow the American flag on clothing because it "offended" somebody. The "toxic masculinity" and "cultural appropriation" crap. The participation ribbons. On and on and on and on.
Yes, transgender was the straw that broke the camel's back. But it was the FINAL straw, not the ONLY straw. I hope the Dems haven't lost sight of that.
‘Devastating Political Consequences’: One Error That This Senior Dem Thinks Cost His Party Big
Gavin Newsom Jump-Started a Conversation Democrats Need to Have
Both of them infer that THE BIG problem is the Dems' overemphasis on transgender rights alone. They focus in on that one (1) issue. Yes, this is an important issue and a spectacularly dumb political tactic, but the transgender stuff was only the icing on the cake. The bathrooms, the flamboyant transgender folks reading to young children in class. BUT...
... that was just on top of everything else that created such animosity towards the Left -- the whole PC/Identity Politics thing. The screaming of RACIST and HOMOPHOBE and ISLAMOPHOBE at everything that moved. The deplatforming of conservative speakers on campus. The safe spaces and trigger warnings. The punishment of employees who "offended" the wrong person. The destruction of family businesses because they didn't want to bake a fucking cake. The refusal to allow the American flag on clothing because it "offended" somebody. The "toxic masculinity" and "cultural appropriation" crap. The participation ribbons. On and on and on and on.
Yes, transgender was the straw that broke the camel's back. But it was the FINAL straw, not the ONLY straw. I hope the Dems haven't lost sight of that.
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