2024 Centrists after Kamala's loss: "We need to abandon trans people and everything the right calls 'woke'"
2004 Centrists after Kerry's loss: "We need to abandon same sex marriage. Americans (i.e Right wingers) are clear it's 'Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve'".
Realistically a Centrist is just a Right Winger who doesn't want to be seen as "one of the bad ones". By that same measure, Liberals are NOT Leftists. They're just the polite fascists.
They should never have a moments peace about that ever again.
There is an entire wing of party apparatchik that couldn’t wait for the election to even be called before they started throwing Trans folks under the bus! 1/2
And worse! Their excuse is “the GOP messaging is too strong! We can’t afford a defense of trans people…”
That and “we need to have an honest discussion!” NO! You! Do! Not! Other peoples existence is not fodder for your neo liberal beltway pundit circle jerkery! 2/2
Nah. That was every progressive Leftist before the election when they decided that a. somehow Trump will be better for Palestine and b. every other cause has to be thrown into the volcano for that.
Centrists had the campaign of their dreams with Kamala. Zero economic populism, empty vessel for corporate talking points, running mostly on vibes, campaigned with Republicans.
Yet they’ll still find a way to blame the left and trans people.
On Threads I kept seeing them talk about how good her campaign was. One very popular post claimed it was a "perfect campaign" that proves it was only misogyny and racism that caused the loss. I don't even know what to tell those people. Campaigning with a Chaney is perfect for the "left" now?!
"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans — that candidate existed, and she just lost."
- John Oliver
There is a decent percentage of centrists who think transgender people are just the progressive-coded equivalent of flat-earthers with a queer bent, and they can't wait to get rid of us or throw us under the bus once it's clear we won't be their useful idiots.
Well…not throwing away trans rights, but I think we have to come to grips that these should be some guidelines for trans in sports since suburban moms went hard Trump because they want to protect their daughters. Gotta find some middle ground on this issue.
The scapegoat was determined long before the results. No matter what the evidence suggests, the answer is somehow always "we have to go further right/get more bigoted" because that is what the capitalist narrative demands.
Introspection and sensible change is a threat to capital and not allowed.
A lot of us older people kind of backed into the issue of transgender rights when one of our kids came out -- seven years ago for me. I love my son and will not accept any attempt to erase him.
And also “Lifelong democrat but we shouldn’t be letting kids identify as cats and using litter boxes and medically transitioning to be covered in full fur. That’s why I voted for Trump.”
I shit you not, this is a near exact verbatim conversation I overheard once, took everything I had not to go off. They were literally taking about cat boxes in classrooms and I was... It was so bad it hurt, physically painful to hear the stupid things people say.
The monied big donor Dems have been holding the party for decades, pulling it to the right and not offering better solutions people give a shit about, but, nah it's Palestinians and transpeople.
Seeing centrists and even some people calling themselves "leftists" reduce oppressed people's struggle for existence to "identity politics" has been very disheartening
even that is probably not enough. if any future candidates have ever said they’re against volcano sacrifice in an ACLU survey any time over the last 6 years we are going to lose again
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2004 Centrists after Kerry's loss: "We need to abandon same sex marriage. Americans (i.e Right wingers) are clear it's 'Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve'".
I'm seeing a pattern here....
They should never have a moments peace about that ever again.
That and “we need to have an honest discussion!” NO! You! Do! Not! Other peoples existence is not fodder for your neo liberal beltway pundit circle jerkery! 2/2
Yet they’ll still find a way to blame the left and trans people.
- John Oliver
Introspection and sensible change is a threat to capital and not allowed.
And if you're asking the question? You just might be on that list.
Otherwise MAGA may make an ad saying we don’t hate them enough