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[–]ShotTopic 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's not that I'm brushing off concerns stemming from this post, it's that this election has larger long term impacts looming. Right now, I'm more worried about the health of our nation (if you're also in the US) and the health of our planet than I am about trans stuff. COVID, health care, climate change, environmental regulations, the supreme court, etc. Get Trump and as many anti-science GOP members out of office first, worry about the rest next.

The point of my comment is that I don't want this one town hall question to be the reason GC people don't vote for Biden or don't vote blue down the ballot. The GOP is no friend to women's rights.

[–]MarkTwainiac 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you for clarifying. I've been a US voter since 1972, when my preferred presidential candidate was Shirley Chisholm, who was the first woman - and black person, IIRC - to run for the Democratic nomination. I was for many years very active in Dem politics. But the Democratic Party today is nothing like what it used to be in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Under the Clintons and their ilk, it totally changed, abandoning the working class, civil rights and the values the Dems traditionally supported.

There used to be a vast difference between the two parties, but now they are both corrupt, run by and for elitist globalists, and totally in the pocket of big business, the investor class and the new oligarchs and tech monopolists. Yes, it's true the GOP is no friend to women's rights, neither IMO is today's Democratic Party.

Also, I am fed up after a whole lifetime of being told again and again not to put women's issues first, coz every election cycle and every fucking year it's always the case that "there are significantly more pressing matters" than women's and children's issues as you said. I am watching all the gains women of earlier generations worked hard for being swept aside for the new, totally pernicious ideology of trans male supremacy and genderism. I'm in the twilight of my life now, but things look far bleaker for women than when I was growing up in the 1960s.

[–]Rationalmind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I totally agree. When Biden said that children should be allowed to transition if they feel like it, my mouth gaped and I couldn’t in good conscience cast my vote for him. I haven’t decided what to do yet with my vote, I might just leave the President box blank.

[–]Rationalmind 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What about the argument that the GOP is the devil I know? Isn’t it easier to fight what you know than to get backstabbed by those we call allies?