In commemoration of the upcoming Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), President Joe Biden issued a statement praising trans people’s contributions to society and describing actions his administration has taken to counter transphobic bullying and extremism. Additionally, many members of Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) also issued their own statements affirming that community health depends on supporting trans people too.
“Transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our Nation,” Biden wrote in his statement. “Whether serving their communities or in the military, raising families or running businesses, they help America thrive. They deserve, and are entitled to, the same rights and freedoms as every other American, including the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves.”
i’ve been trying to find someone who’s life had been impacted by biden’s support of don’t-ask-don’t-tell; defense-of-marriage-act; executive-order-10450; ice; straight-marriage-only-in-2006 to ask if they still support him; but it seems that only the young who are ignorant of his past; those who “avoid politics”; and those that were never affected universally support him.
if you’re not one of these three groups; i’d like to hear your thoughts on why he switched to pro-lgbt: do you think it’s because it was more politically advantageous of him? did he hate lgbt in the past because it acceptable and, if so, if it were still acceptable would he continue to hate lgbt?
i ask because my life has been thoroughly fucked by each one of these policies and it took A LOT of effort to rebuild my life so it’s obvious that i wouldn’t support him; but i’m wondering if there’s anyone else out there whose life has also been thoroughly fucked by these policies, but still support him somehow.
I’m only voting for him because the other option and inaction are death sentences. I don’t like the guy at all and would vote for someone else given the option.
That said, for all his centrist tendencies he does seem to occasionally cave in to pressure. It just takes time.
That moment when doing what your constituents want you to do is “caving to pressure” ugh
This is a Democracy. Biden was elected to enact the will of the people. If all of a sudden America became fascinated with the color yellow, I would expect him to start wearing yellow pins. If the American people change their minds, our elected leaders should also change their minds, because they work for us.
i don’t know about you; but i’ve been voting for the “lesser evil” for 40 years now and there’s never been anything other than voting for the “lesser evil” each time.
i’ve started to believe that our circumstances are engineered so that we will only continue to get the “lesser evil” guaranteeing that we will eventually get the greater evil anyways and biden doesn’t have another 25 years to cave in to pressure.
Petition for an end to FPTP voting if you want to see change.
How does that follow?
If you keep voting hard enough for the lesser evil every time, you make things less evil. That’s how democracy works.
Or are you one of those silly people who never votes in the primaries?
here’s your strawman-esque argument with another one: lesser evil and evil work towards the same goal; it’s only difference at the speed at which its executed so voting for the lesser evil means that we’ll get there no matter what.
Ah, so you’re one of the tinfoil hat Joe Rogan types.
Voting for the lesser evil brought us expanded healthcare that saved thousands of lives. It brought us legal recognition of gay marriage. It brought us all the social progress that you’re completely ignoring.
"Both sides"ism brought us the end of abortion protections.
There is no grand conspiracy to make your life horrible. It’s just one evil party, one good party, and you in the middle refusing to pick because you’re scared of having any agency in your life.
so much to unpack here, so there’s good reason not to engage further; except to point out that you’re drinking too much blue maga koolaid.
you’re the only one to mention “both sides” while this biden voter will only blame democrats if biden loses; not other leftists.
Start with unpacking this, if you can.
Unfortunately, you’re going to be voting for “not the other option” for the rest of your life since democrats will see that this is the perfect strategy they can use to never have to actually change the status quo.