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California’s governor has become an anti-Trump comedian. It’s 2017 all over again.
(www.theguardian.com)
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When am I allowed to “whine” about his transphobia? When should I write down in my calendar as the appropriate date to “whine” that he is signaling support for conservative anti-trans talking points, like it’s going to actually win him voters? Not even touching the way he’s treated homeless residents of the state.
It doesn’t matter that Equality California, and the leader of the state senate’s LGBTQ+ caucus, and the world’s largest LGBT health center (based in California) all condemned his statements, of course. Psy-ops, all of them.
Based on the way people talk about anyone who does anything other than sing his praises I’m guessing the answer is ‘never.’ There’s always going to be some new crisis that makes trans rights too frivolous and unimportant to hold politicians to account for. I’m not fucking stupid, I remember how Democratic leadership in the 90s and 00s reacted to increasing demands for gay rights. I’ve seen this song and dance before.
And to top it off, after living here over a dozen years I have to see people talk like California isn’t both incredibly populated and with plenty of people left of center and dissatisfied with Newsom (his approval rating was hanging in the mid 40s before the Trump shenanigans). I guess they’re all astroturfers too. Fuck, if I didn’t live here I’d have breathed in a little less goddamned who knows what in the January fires.
While I get where you're coming from, turning into a single-issue voter won't do anything. Republicans took over on abortion, even though this is not an epidemic problem. Pick your battles.
I am that single fucking issue. I'm not going to vote for my own demise and you're over here like "ooo don't forget to pick your battles" while avoiding the fucking humans standing next to you. You god-damned fair-weather liberals are literally going to get me thrown into a concentration camp just so you can protect your own fucking cis-white privilege. Decolonize your fucking mind.
If you didn't vote against Trump in the last election, you literally voted for your own demise. Maybe literally. I hope it turns out okay for you.
Fighting for better than the Democrats is in no way whatsoever incompatible with fighting to survive in the meantime.