With the Democratic Party struggling to find a new direction, former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden have offered to jump in and help with fundraising and rebuilding.
Seems to me you are proposing that we cater to the bigots.
Nope. I’m saying the LGBT stuff doesn’t matter nearly as much as you think it does. It’s amplified as a propaganda tactic to get bigots votes. They get power, which results in bigoted policies to keep power.
Your empathy is irrelevant if you have no power, which you don’t. Do you not recognize that it’s getting worse for the LGBT community? Potentially way fucking worse.
Your way isn’t working, because you don’t understand that it’s not actually your way, it’s the wealthy in power that have you hyperfocused on anything other than them hoarding wealth and consolidating power, and destroying what rights and freedom we have left.
It matters far more than you are giving it credit. Throwing one group under the bus is immoral and we should oppose it because of that, but it is also just stupid tactically. Our strength is solidarity. Everyone for everyone and against the oligarchs who are destroying this world.
It matters far more than you are giving it credit.
Throwing one group under the bus
It does not, and I’m absolutely not throwing them under the bus.
I’ve already said, inherently and foundationally, leftists support protections for minorities of all types, period. It should be really easy. It doesn’t matter in the sense that it’s simple, bigots who discriminate against any minority should be an extreme outlier. The problem we have is a long term lack of education and cultural indoctrination that supports bigotry. Because of this there’s way more ignorance and bigotry than there should be. The cure for this really is widespread education. We can’t educate if we have no power.
We can’t fix it without power. The true moral thing to do is logically understand how to get power. Keeping immigrant and LGBT issues at the top, is just getting the right to win. Hell, even immigrants went more for trump this election.
everyone and against the oligarchs who are destroying this world
This is the most important thing, but in a way that actually works. The oligarchs are winning and getting more of the masses on their side, because they’re using the immigrant and LGBT issue stuff to rally they’re supporters to get votes and keep power. Conservatives are winning all over the world, and they all use these tactics.
Copy/paste of my other comment, the gist of what im saying:
LGBT, woke, and immigrant issues are amplified by those in power to get more votes on the right, and distract from the most important issues: oligarchy and wealthy elites who are exploiting the poor and working class.
This doesn’t mean these issues aren’t important, they are. They’re just used to distract from what’s more important, and energize bigots who end up supporting the right.
Anti oligarchy and the billionaire exploitation should be the most amplified issues talking points. This, done correctly, might even get some support from outside the left (remember luigi?, glimpses of far left and far right joining together).
This doesn’t mean throw minorities under the bus. It means switching priorities, to get power.
LGBT, woke, and immigrant issues are amplified by those in power to get more votes on the right
OK agreed!
and distract from the most important issues: oligarchy and wealthy elites who are exploiting the poor and working class.
I agree with you that they use them to distract from those issues, but I disagree with how you are ranking them. I will attempt to explain that at the end.*
This, done correctly, might even get some support from outside the left (remember luigi?, glimpses of far left and far right joining together).
I agree here too, but that support will be limited, insincere, a facade, a brittle alliance, because the moment they have to support policies that will help people not like them, or that require them to accept policies based on someone else’s deeper understanding of a topic than their own (for one example a global pandemic and the precautions an uncertain world needed to take until treatments and vaccines could be developed), they will go running back to maga, or at least to whatever is remaining of R at that point in time.
This doesn’t mean throw minorities under the bus
I believe you think it doesn’t. I think you can’t possibly be considering how such an approach will allow for harm to those groups until your plan bears fruit. (which it may not ever do)
It means switching priorities, to get power.
During the period of time between the switching and the power, it means willfully risking the lives of other people who are members of groups that (apologies for my assumption if I’m wrong) it doesn’t sound like you consider yourself a member of. The willfully is important. There’s no avoiding that we all make decisions that will have external impacts we haven’t considered, but there’s no way around that this is a choice to increase the vulnerability of those groups for an uncertain period of time.
For the next bit, I’m going to copy paste a bit from a prior reply also, with some edits.
and distract from the most important issues: oligarchy and wealthy elites who are exploiting the poor and working class.
I said I’d more thoroughly explain my disagreement with you on this point.
I am NOT queer, nor a minority. But if I were a member of one of those groups, I’d probably be pretty upset that you are telling me I should accept that I’m going to lose my gender affirming care or the protections of the civil rights act with nary an expectation of backing from allies, because for an indeterminate amount of time they have decided they need to let me and others like me suffer for a political gambit that may or may not pan out.
EDIT: So it’s a distraction to the RIGHT who eat up the fake bullshit about these groups. But to the people who are in those groups it’s a legitimate existential threat. (Forgot to tie it all together in the first draft)
IMO that sort of thinking brought us Hillary (vs Bernie) and Biden (vs Bernie) and contributes to the rightward walk of the Democrats exemplified by the latter half or so of Kamala’s campaign and by memes such as this:
Nope. I’m saying the LGBT stuff doesn’t matter nearly as much as you think it does. It’s amplified as a propaganda tactic to get bigots votes. They get power, which results in bigoted policies to keep power.
Your empathy is irrelevant if you have no power, which you don’t. Do you not recognize that it’s getting worse for the LGBT community? Potentially way fucking worse.
Your way isn’t working, because you don’t understand that it’s not actually your way, it’s the wealthy in power that have you hyperfocused on anything other than them hoarding wealth and consolidating power, and destroying what rights and freedom we have left.
It matters far more than you are giving it credit. Throwing one group under the bus is immoral and we should oppose it because of that, but it is also just stupid tactically. Our strength is solidarity. Everyone for everyone and against the oligarchs who are destroying this world.
It does not, and I’m absolutely not throwing them under the bus.
I’ve already said, inherently and foundationally, leftists support protections for minorities of all types, period. It should be really easy. It doesn’t matter in the sense that it’s simple, bigots who discriminate against any minority should be an extreme outlier. The problem we have is a long term lack of education and cultural indoctrination that supports bigotry. Because of this there’s way more ignorance and bigotry than there should be. The cure for this really is widespread education. We can’t educate if we have no power.
We can’t fix it without power. The true moral thing to do is logically understand how to get power. Keeping immigrant and LGBT issues at the top, is just getting the right to win. Hell, even immigrants went more for trump this election.
This is the most important thing, but in a way that actually works. The oligarchs are winning and getting more of the masses on their side, because they’re using the immigrant and LGBT issue stuff to rally they’re supporters to get votes and keep power. Conservatives are winning all over the world, and they all use these tactics.
“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.” - Le Guin
There’s a poem about this very attitude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
And you know what? You can plainly see it happening.
All during the election it was LGBTQ. But that’s kinda back seat (for now) -
Then it was undocumented immigrants that were criminals.
It took no time at all before we heard about non-criminal undocumented immigrants being swept up. And then Native Americans.
Now it’s clearly people who have made honest mistakes.
And Trump now says he wants to send protesters to El Salvador too.
He’s going to come for the queer folks.
He’s going to come for you if you aren’t a cis white male or tradwife to one. It’s just a matter of time.
We stand together or not at all.
Yowza. That doesn’t apply to my comments at all.
Then you aren’t expressing yourself very well.
Agreed.
Copy/paste of my other comment, the gist of what im saying:
LGBT, woke, and immigrant issues are amplified by those in power to get more votes on the right, and distract from the most important issues: oligarchy and wealthy elites who are exploiting the poor and working class.
This doesn’t mean these issues aren’t important, they are. They’re just used to distract from what’s more important, and energize bigots who end up supporting the right.
Anti oligarchy and the billionaire exploitation should be the most amplified issues talking points. This, done correctly, might even get some support from outside the left (remember luigi?, glimpses of far left and far right joining together).
This doesn’t mean throw minorities under the bus. It means switching priorities, to get power.
OK agreed!
I agree with you that they use them to distract from those issues, but I disagree with how you are ranking them. I will attempt to explain that at the end.*
I agree here too, but that support will be limited, insincere, a facade, a brittle alliance, because the moment they have to support policies that will help people not like them, or that require them to accept policies based on someone else’s deeper understanding of a topic than their own (for one example a global pandemic and the precautions an uncertain world needed to take until treatments and vaccines could be developed), they will go running back to maga, or at least to whatever is remaining of R at that point in time.
I believe you think it doesn’t. I think you can’t possibly be considering how such an approach will allow for harm to those groups until your plan bears fruit. (which it may not ever do)
During the period of time between the switching and the power, it means willfully risking the lives of other people who are members of groups that (apologies for my assumption if I’m wrong) it doesn’t sound like you consider yourself a member of. The willfully is important. There’s no avoiding that we all make decisions that will have external impacts we haven’t considered, but there’s no way around that this is a choice to increase the vulnerability of those groups for an uncertain period of time.
For the next bit, I’m going to copy paste a bit from a prior reply also, with some edits.
I said I’d more thoroughly explain my disagreement with you on this point.
I am NOT queer, nor a minority. But if I were a member of one of those groups, I’d probably be pretty upset that you are telling me I should accept that I’m going to lose my gender affirming care or the protections of the civil rights act with nary an expectation of backing from allies, because for an indeterminate amount of time they have decided they need to let me and others like me suffer for a political gambit that may or may not pan out.
EDIT: So it’s a distraction to the RIGHT who eat up the fake bullshit about these groups. But to the people who are in those groups it’s a legitimate existential threat. (Forgot to tie it all together in the first draft)
IMO that sort of thinking brought us Hillary (vs Bernie) and Biden (vs Bernie) and contributes to the rightward walk of the Democrats exemplified by the latter half or so of Kamala’s campaign and by memes such as this: