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81 Democrats Voted To Pull Care From Service Member's Trans kids. (www.erininthemorning.com)

submitted 2 years ago by jupiter2643@lemmy.ml to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Contact your rep if they're in this list. More context at: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/first-major-congressional-fight-over

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

WHAT IS GOING ON. Ugh.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be clear, 81 dems voted to fund the military and defund trans kids.

[–] FuzzyDog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A quote I really like; "with Democrats like these, who needs Republicans". The party is a total joke right now.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

More apt, IMO: Republicans fear their base. Democrats hate their base.

The dems and their staff, pundits, op-ed writers, etc know that the people don't like war and that the hyper-focus on oppressing trans people, especially children, is weird and off-putting, there's tons of polling on this. But try to tell them that and they'll give you some west-wing brained horseshit about how actually it's virtuous and necessary to betray your base and triangulate yourself 1 inch to the left of the republicans.

I don't know if that's better or worse than being called a Russian bot for pointing this out.

[–] FuzzyDog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I mean yeah, the Democratic elite seem to have utter contempt for the party base and just ignore polling. Gaza is the perfect example of this. In the lead up to the election, it was abundantly clear that Kamala's "policy" (read: doing nothing) towards Gaza was tremendously unpopular with the party base. And they just... Ignored it. There are plenty of people who withheld from voting on that issue alone.