[RANT/CRY FOR HELP] I am exhausted I am confused and I want to figure all this out. Grappling with trans issues while discovering I am a feminist.

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[–]mangosplums 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I will definitely be voting for Biden. If we allow Trump to have another 4 years our country will become fascist. That’s not hyperbole, that’s what he wants to turn it into. He also wants to destroy our ability to vote and is already attempting to do so. If he wins again, I think voting in this country will basically be over.

What is the details of the ERA? As much as the trans stuff worries me, it doesn’t eclipse the other worries I have about Trump and many other things going on in the country, so I’m not going to let a politician’s stance on trans issues affect my vote much.

[–]BEB 20 insightful - 3 fun20 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It's not the Democrats' stance on trans issue that bothers GC feminists, it's their stance on women's rights as it relates to trans activists' demands.

I'm guessing almost every GC feminist agrees that trans should have the same civil rights as everyone else, but they can't have women's hard-won rights.

The Democrats, from the local to the federal level, are handing women's rights, women's sex-segregated spaces and women's sports, to men who claim to be women.

If Biden wins, and the Democrats take over the Senate, then they will make the Equality Act into law and women's rights, women's sex-segregated spaces and women's sports will be gone.

Women will cease to exist as a distinct legal category and many of the laws written for women on the basis of sex will be thrown into limbo.

So we have the choice of a party, the Republicans, that is trying to eradicate Social Security and Medicare, clean water/ clean air, funding for education, the middle and working classes, health care, food safety standards and all sorts of other basic needs.

And a president who shows zero respect for the Constitution and the rule of law, wants to be a dictator and acts like one, is wildly unstable and showing signs of dementia, might start WW III deliberately or by accident...

Or the Democrats, who might deliberately start WW III and will definitely make women into second class citizens without even a legal way to define ourselves.

Really screwed up country, we Americans have...

[–]jet199 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

"If we allow Trump to have another 4 years our country will become fascist. That’s not hyperbole, that’s what he wants to turn it into."

You're right it's not hyperbole, it's outright delusion. You'd have to completely change the definition of the word "fascist" to make that work. Words mean things, you know.

FFS Americans have the most boring politics and they have to pretend like the world is ending any time the other millionaire who has one slightly different policy their preferred millionaire gets voted in.

[–]jelliknight 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I dont know if it would become fascist, but it sure looks like it's circling the drain. I'm not american, just watching from the outside. Right now you've got a pandemic in a nation with overpriced privatized healthcare and no sick leave for most people, AND your politicians are doing almost nothing about it. Thousands have died. It will be millions soon. Your population is really dumb, they're not even able to understand the threat they're facing, let alone take action. And during this, you have mass rioting because your police force has no accountability and are responding to it with even more violence and less accountability, while your citizens are armed to the teeth. Civil wars have begun over less.

How do the next few years go, regardless of who gets elected? The pandemic isn't going to go away. It's not just going to burn itself out before it reaches herd immunity at 80+% (and even then immunity may be temporary) and we're not going to come up with a cure any time soon. The virus seems to be killing 2 to 6% of everyone who catches it, and so far only about 1.5% of the US population are confirmed to have caught it. Best case scenario, without a miracle, you're looking at several years of massive economic upheaval and deaths along with a citizenship that is almost in open war with the police. It's not going to take much for the whole think to come tumbling down.

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think viewed from the outside during these latest events, our police look out of control, but police departments are under local control, so the bad eggs are tarnishing all police even though some police forces are actually well-run.

And, in actuality, Americans are not in open war with police, that's just our sensationalistic media being sensationalistic. Most Americans, including black Americans, support the police. And I think that the rioting will actually end up hurting the Democrats' chances because it's being associated with BLM, even though it shouldn't be.

There are also a lot of outside influences destabilizing US society, but I won't go into that here because I think it's too off-topic.

As to the rest, I think that the US is in for some very tough times, and I think part of the problem is that politicians have almost stopped listening to their constituents and only listen to lobbyists.

Take trans demands activism: If the issue were explained properly to Americans, almost all but the 20-year-old gender studies majors would understand the conflict with women's rights and would side with women.

Even though many of our congresspeople are dumb as posts, they, or someone on their staff, must also realize that trans demands activism sets women's rights back 50 years or so, and would know that it will be hugely unpopular once Americans wake up.

They don't care: our representatives are receiving huge $$$ from Trans, Inc., and Trans, Inc. has done an amazing job pre-silencing criticism by pumping out pro-trans propaganda on all fronts, hijacking the LGB movement, while making "transphobia" a slur before most people had even considered the issue.

Americans are extremely good at burying our heads in the sand. I think this summer is the lull before the storm, and I don't think that anyone can predict what is going to happen. There could be violence, there could be a lot of unrest, but I doubt civil war because Americans are too lazy and too caught up in their own worlds.

No matter what, I don't think that the immediate future is going to be good for women. Neither party has our back.

[–]yishengqingwa666 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I will not be voting for either rapist. At least Trump knows that women are real and not a feeling in a mans' head. I believe he will be re-elected, due to Democrats insistence on catering to the misogynist, FASCIST trans cult. THEY are the fascists.