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[–]WrongToy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I brought it up at Ovarit (https://ovarit.com/o/GenderCritical/23699/i-m-not-sure-i-ll-be-voting-dem-in-2022-2024-sorry) and the response was largely positive.

The skeptics were people who said this cannot be my hill, because of climate change, or racial justice, or abortion.

If Dems really care about these things, where have they been for 30+ years on each single one? It's not like the 1994 crime bill geared toward Black people happened under a GOP, it was just more acceptable that it happened under a Dem. Let alone the Lewinsky situation. And since, it's just been, here, let's make sure there's an abortion clinic in your state where you have to pay $800 to get $100 worth of meds.

The Dems are the ones prioritizing these TIMs, specifically the TIMs they know, who are mostly affluent and entitled. Until they stop doing that, I will not stop looking for an alternative to them or not supporting them. It's your party Dems, and way I see it, I don't even get a chance to have a conversation.

I've been a registered Dem since 1982 and still am btw, but as long as the Dems continue this charade, for which I fully blame them for, I'm not voting for any Dem on the federal level unless it is crystal they're onboard with gc. That's my issue, women's issues, and I'm sorry that gets in the way of other legit issues, but that's the way I feel about it.

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

I'm a passionate liberal on most things, but my other foaming-at-the-mouth issue is war, as in anti-war. The Democrats fail miserably on that too.

And look at what the Democrats are steering women towards:

  • "Sex work" as work
  • Surrogacy
  • Lite porn work as in cam girls

The Democrats seem determined to have women's bodies be marketplaces. So F them.

[–]WildApples 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am completely with you. The Dems suck on labor, poverty, and other bread and butter issues; they are disingenuous and Machiavellian in their support of civil rights; and they have supported robust expansion of an anti-democratic surveillance state. Women's issues were really the only thing that kept me voting for them, which is why last year I abstained from voting altogether. I am not sorry about it at all. I am happier with each passing day that I did not compromise my integrity by voting for Biden.

I will never forgive the Democrats for this.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm with you all the way. I registered as a Democrat when I became eligible to vote in 1972, but became an independent during the Clinton presidency. One of my older sisters, a staunch women's rights advocate, was a major figure in the Democratic leadership council in the 80s and 90s and served as a high-up official in the Clinton administration. But what she divulged about the inner workings of the party and what I saw for myself soured me on the Dems. The Democratic party today is nothing like what it was in the era of FDR and Jimmy Carter.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Come on - spill!