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Suz Stiles's avatar

THANK YOU!!!! Why are legislators wasting valuable time on culture war issues, esp in red states, where their infrastructure, health care and education SUCK!!! It is such a small portion of the population!!!! I know I know, the cruelty is the point. Taking it away from kids is one thing but now they are taking it away from transitioned adults. The medical profession needs to grow a pair as people are dying due to this cruel legislation. and don't get me started on abortion legislation.

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Eastern Promises's avatar

Come on we know why: the things you mentioned above would actually require ideas and proposed solutions, some of which may fail. If they do, the politicians who supported them would get blamed and would lose. However, the beauty of BS social issues is that they literally cost the politician nothing. If there are no proposals to stop the proposed wrong, you still have the issue and can complain about it on Fox so-called News until the cows come home, where your typical Wisconsin-dirt farmer cow f***ing, D-bag can blame all his problems on illegals at the Mexican Border and Black people in Chicago, or "Queers" in NYC. I mean, it sells itself.

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Jan's avatar

Yeah, y’all just keep harping on Biden’s negative polls, like he is ANY moral equivalent to Trump and you will assure Trump’s election to the Presidency. We are talking catastrophe. Judge Luttig, EJ Dionne and members of the Lincoln Project are more forthright about the dangers, in my opinion. It appears to me that many who write and speak for the Bulwark appear not to believe that we are heading for sure catastrophe for our democratic republic. The talk of “pearl clutching” sickens me. Please give up trying to “save” the Republican Party.

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Eastern Promises's avatar

I personally believe all these Biden is doomed pearl-clutchers are looking for some reason to try and run Buttigieg.

I will repeat what I have said before: Buttigieg will never be POTUS; if Biden is having problems, Buttigieg's will be worse.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

Pete will be president. I’m one of his biggest supporters and I have no desire for him to run now. Biden is doing a fabulous job and I’m so glad he’s in charge. I think Pete will likely run for senator in MI in ‘24. That seems like a logical step.

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Maggie's avatar

The physicians' groups pretty uniformly oppose anything that cuts into their autonomy (to the detriment of the American healthcare system more often than not), including the trans laws.

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Anne B's avatar

Are they suing to get rid of them? I never hear about physicians' groups doing anything about these laws or abortion bans. Maybe they are and the press isn’t covering it. If I were a doctor, I'd be really pissed off. State inserting itself into my profession and limiting my ability to practice medicine.

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Alister Sutherland's avatar

It seems to me there has been wide and very vocal opposition among the medical community regarding all the new draconian laws restricting/outlawing abortion, reproductive care generally as well as transgender care sweeping the nation.

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Cosmic Debris's avatar

The problem is history. We only need to look back to the enthusiastic use of lobotomy to treat any kind of mental illness and it's evil twin Eugenics. Here in NC we had laws on the books through the 1970s to sterilize folks deemed useless to society.

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Keith Sherman's avatar

How come you still have Republicans then?

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mel ladi's avatar

Not to mention the wide prescribing of opioids...

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