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[–]SuperGayIsOkay 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Conservatives worldwide are on an upswing politically, they have the cultural capital to form alliances and win support.

You mean the ones that attempted to overthrow their own government in support of a mentally ill man who allowed a pandemic to run unchecked? Sorry, but no. Your analysis is misguided.

Conservatives are essentially a comically inept supervillain, one that sadly does manage to wield a lot of political clout due to sheer idiocy of the populace and thus numbers, but because they are viewed rightly as being antagonists and responsible for much of the world's problems (including the United States' continued problem with gun deaths and mass shootings) it will always be a constant left vs right swing of politics.

What you need for healthy politics and for sane social policy is for a better system of choosing leaders to come into place, one that allows us to make better quality selections of our elected leaders instead of settling for the barrel scrapings we put up with. Score voting for instance would get us that. From there, with a system that does not have wasted votes as plurality does, we would then have more nuanced representation within political spectrums from viable candidates, i.e. left leaning politicians who don't buy into the transgender craze.

Our election system is part of the reason people are terrified of voting against the status quo, and why third parties are seen as dead in the water. A system that allows you to vote for multiple qualified candidates and rate them all honestly would fix a LOT of our issues.

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

Republican governor of Florida signed this bill today:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-gov-ron-desantis-bans-trans-girls-from-school-sports-on-first-day-of-pride-month/ar-AAKBzZI

We're supposed to be scandalized because he did this on this first day of our holy month, Pride Month.