I can agree with most of that. I’m not so sure where you get trans people being thrown under the bus and blamed for the loss, though, LGBT folks in general voted at a pretty high rate afaik.
Ultimately, there’s just not enough of us, though. I think that’s the core problem. The general sentiment most prevalent geographically across the nation is right-leaning, and due to the electoral college (edit: and Senate distribution), that gets to determine an outsized amount of policy. We can’t not make something palatable to the gop, or we simply get nothing. That’s what they want, after all, us to get nothing. It’s what we have to work with. We can’t magically just change that without the actual votes to do so.
Especially when the Supreme Court is considered, which we haven’t held in decades. But even in the legislature, our majorities when we infrequently get them are narrow, with no real room to maneuver. The thing I’d personally most like to see is voting rights protections and campaign finance reform, but I know that’ll never pass without 60 Senate seats, which feels like a pipe dream. Nobody’s leadership can do anything about that, they have to work within the rules too.
I can agree with most of that. I’m not so sure where you get trans people being thrown under the bus and blamed for the loss, though, LGBT folks in general voted at a pretty high rate afaik.
Ultimately, there’s just not enough of us, though. I think that’s the core problem. The general sentiment most prevalent geographically across the nation is right-leaning, and due to the electoral college (edit: and Senate distribution), that gets to determine an outsized amount of policy. We can’t not make something palatable to the gop, or we simply get nothing. That’s what they want, after all, us to get nothing. It’s what we have to work with. We can’t magically just change that without the actual votes to do so.
Especially when the Supreme Court is considered, which we haven’t held in decades. But even in the legislature, our majorities when we infrequently get them are narrow, with no real room to maneuver. The thing I’d personally most like to see is voting rights protections and campaign finance reform, but I know that’ll never pass without 60 Senate seats, which feels like a pipe dream. Nobody’s leadership can do anything about that, they have to work within the rules too.