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No, they don’t, and they shouldn’t. What happened to Dems needing to be authentic? Now we’re saying they all need to pretend to agree on a stupid niche issue that the majority of voters never stand to encounter or be impacted by in their entire lives?

They can bring perspective to the conversation, and if they can’t learn how to make their case and communicate it effectively, they deserve to fail, and frankly so does the American experiment. I hate this argument that democrats must be the reactionary party simply because they’re atrocious at messaging and communicating their ideas. That’s the damn job. A politician who is incapable of persuading people needs to find a new line of work.

It’s not that hard. The government should not be legislating the type of issues that are uncommon enough to be handled with sensitivity and dignity on a case by case basis. I thought republicans used to be against the nanny state, or at least they pretended to be.

These issues are instigated by the right to divide and us up and distract us from their failures. Trans people aren’t the reason Americans aren’t prospering, the billionaire class is. The unprecedented level of corruption from the Trump regime on behalf of the billionaire class has only made life worse for all Americans. We can disagree on certain cultural and social norms, as we always have and always will in a free society, but we cannot continue to ignore the corruption, greed, and self-enrichment of the ultra wealthy at the expense of those who work for a living.

The same way Elon Musk and his goons kept hypnotically repeating the phrase “waste, fraud, and abuse” to the point where MAGA was repeating it in exactly that order like brainwashed lemmings, democrats should be banging the drum on corruption, greed, and self-enrichment. They need to take control of the narrative that this is normal. It’s not normal. As soon as voters start to feel the pain of his incompetence and reckless, destructive actions, they will have a much harder time accepting that the level of corruption is the same. Trans issues might work to rile people up during prosperous times, but when people are losing their jobs, 401ks, homes, health insurance, and savings, they won’t have the mental capacity to care that somewhere in America, a 12 year old with a Y chromosome got to play soccer on the girl’s team.

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