Assembly Bill 2164 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) would have prohibited California’s governor from recognizing a request for extradition of a person related to their providing a legally protected healthcare activity in the Golden State to transgender individuals, or if they provide reproductive services. It provided certain exemptions, such as an extradition required by federal law.
Where did I mention violence? People aren’t even willing to do a general strike, or a mass movement to reject all non-essential consumer spending, refusing to pay bills, rent, etc en masse. A violent revolution would never happen here unless people were actually starving to death.
Listen, if centrists want people to vote blue, or vote at all, then stop dismissing things like the enthusiasm gap, treating the left like a monolith, and trying to move towards economic populism while dismissing human rights under the framing of “cultural war” issues. I don’t mind if someone STFU about their position on things like trans issues and focusing on the economy, but actively coming out and saying trans issues are the problem is a whole other level of rejecting an increasingly influential and growing left wing base of potential voters.
That’s just sour grapes about failing to energize the voting base. Scapegoating.
Guys like Talarico trying to backpedal to woo conservative voters - that isn’t winning you votes, that’s just making you look weak, while losing more support than you’re gaining.
The Dem establishment is far too quick to assume left-wing policies like social justice are unpolular amongst the voting base. If the premise is that establishment Dems and independents care about the economy more than anything else, then there’s no harm in championing social justice. You’re retaining all of your potential voting base.
Establishment Centrist voters would be doing the same thing if DSA backed candidates took over the Dem leadership. They’d be refusing to vote for progressives, or at least threatening to do so. And they’d be getting equally pissed if you just tell them to suck it up and vote for the progressive candidate.
Watch and learn from any of the close upcoming races where actual progressives are running for office. Let’s see how many establishment blue line zealots cross the aisle. Or just refuse to vote at all.
It is truly sad that you believe these things. Especially because your logic explicitly makes coalition building impossible, and thus a revolution equally as impossible.
How the fuck do you expect to build a revolution when you can’t make a concession or work with people you disagree with?
You are the definition of perfect being the enemy of good enough. I get that you want to save everyone right now. Cool. Great. Uh, one problem: FUCKING HOW??? You live in a fucking fairy tale if you think you can do these things. Your ideals kill the people you think you are standing up for, and it is shitty behaviors.
You aren’t doing what you do to save queer people. You’re not doing what you do to save minorities. You’re not doing this for any noble reason.
You are doing this so that YOU DON’T HAVE TO FEEL BAD. You are doing it because the people that might die from your lack of doing anything won’t weigh on your shoulders. And to that, I say, you should feel more of the remorse than those that tried to make things better. Because they tried.
But, you won’t. The type of person who thinks voting third party or not voting will save people are the exact type of people who will say “It wasn’t my fault.” when people die, because they tried one thing that did jackshit.
You can have good and push for better a shitton easier than having perfect from the beginning.
The typical American voter bitches about injustice, while they continue to support injustice.
They fret about the children while eating açaí bowls and consuming cheap goods made with child slave labor.
They feel bad for exploited third-world people while booking luxury cruises to “safe,” all-inclusive resorts that exploit third world workers and benefit the rich.
They hate CEOs while participating in blantant consumerism.
They scream about animal welfare while consuming animal products three times a day.
They wax about social justice as long as it’s convenient for them to do so, and their political team wins by throwing minorities under the bus, or making them a secondary priority.
The two core values of the typical American voter are money and immediate gratification. In the words of that Skeletor-looking mf James Carville: “It’s duh economee, stoopid.”
Social justice and progressivism as long as I don’t have to personally sacrifice anything.
Morals that cease when my wallet shrinks, when I’m inconvenienced, or when the consumer happiness index shrinks. Social justice that becomes negotiable to stop orange man - even though orange man is just a reflection, a grotesque parody of the hypocritical, racist, queerphobic, materialistic, first-world lust of America. People hate when their inconsistencies are laid bare for all to see. They want to shut it back in the closet, rather than take five minutes for critical self-reflection.
Save your pointless lecture for someone else.
Talk to a therapist, buddy. And if you can’t afford that, talk to a real person. If everyone was like you, we’d still be exactly where we are. Do not kid yourself and grandstand on morals when you would sacrifice the people you pretend to care about.
You are not better than anyone else. Stop pretending you are.
Never said I was better than anyone else. Although I try to be better than average on a daily basis.
But the problem lies in the fact that people want to elected leaders alone to make the change for them, while having no involvement in that change other than a vote.
The elected leaders we have are nothing but a reflection of who we are.
The system is a refection of our habits.
Apathy doesn’t accomplish anything. Action does. Action other than no kings protests and bitching online. Action than voting for the same capitalist politicians who only care about attaining power and increasing their wealth.
You want things like climate change action? Animals rights? Become the change agent yourself by looking at your daily consumption habits.
What everyone has been doing doesn’t work.
Also, you don’t have to be above moral reproach to make a moral criticism of society. I could be a murderer and still speak the truth. If no one wants to hear it, 🤷♂️
Then why are you currently bitching online and being apathetic?
I’m not just doing that. You know nothing of my life or habits.
You realize I can make the same assumption about you? I would hope you’re doing something constructive about addressing your own habits of consumption.
Are you vegan? That’s one change everyone can make that serves the planet and works towards of the elimination of exploitation of sentient beings for profit. It’s also a great thing for the planet. If not, why not?
Do you reject giving money to Amazon, Target, driver delivery services? Do you try to cut back your consumption of unnecessary consumer goods to a bare minimum, always aiming to do better all the time? If not, why is that?