Imagining a world in which Democrats had instead responded to anti-trans stuff with “Republicans are sick perverts obsessed with other people’s genitals” and stayed on message with that ad nauseam
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The Rs' whole goal is to empower themselves as a bunch of busybodying, arbitrarily interfering pains in the ass, ie the thing they always accused liberals of doing, Mind Your Own Goddamned Business could absolutely be the Democratic rallying cry, if they weren't overrun with quislings and parasites.
I just hate how much the Democrats are afraid to fight a bit dirty - it would not even have been unfair. I mean, they even stopped the "weird" part. C'mon.
Walz was great at it and then they brought in Jen Palmieri and the other ghosts of Hillary and Obama past, decided that was too unseemly a route to travel and here we are
"Their obsession with trans people is a distraction from cutting Medicaid and Social Security to fund tax cuts for the rich" seems like a winning message too.
there is no distraction, multiple bad things can happen at once. Start having object permanance and remembering that just because Bad Thing X is happening doesn't mean Bad Thing Y isn't also happening. They are independent variables!
I am not denying that bad things are happening to trans people! I am saying that it is a callous political tool to blame a vulnerable population for society's ills which are being caused largely by those pointing the finger.
Literally just run ads saying "Republicans want to inspect your childs genitals" because fucking hell it is not an exaggeration, it is not a lie, it is literally fucking laws they have written.
That's *exactly* the messaging I've used with my Republican family, and it comes close to working. Not sure it changes minds but it shuts them up like *nothing* in the recorded history of the household.
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