On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump’s executive order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism.” It would also require public schools to forcibly out transgender students to their parents before using their pronouns or chosen names. The bill is significant on its own terms for the harm it would inflict on transgender youth if it became law. But what made Tuesday’s vote especially notable was the eight Democrats who joined every Republican to pass it—the largest Democratic defection on any standalone anti-trans bill of this Congress.
This is a shit take. ALL Rs voted for this. No dems NEEDED to vote for this for it to pass, but some did. If we want to make the Dem party an acutal progressive party, then these Nazi pieces of shit need to be primaried. This doesn’t make all Dems nazis…
It’s a shit system but you aren’t going to change it by 1) not voting and 2) generalizing.
Vote. For individuals. Not because they are Dem, but because you’ve dug into a candidate and found them to match your beliefs.
Fix your attitude, or the progressives will never make it.
I will give you a small spoiler.
All the politicians, with the exception of very very few, like Mamdami, need to be guillotined abruptly, and almost simultaneously.
Sure, that sounds great. You going to get right on that?
No, I’m getting on disability 😀
Just explaining what it would take to turn things around.
Any of them bunkers down, or slips beneath notice, and they rot the system again.
I mean, that’s part of the problem right? Some folks talk about the guillotine and yet do nothing about it.
And you assume the problem goes away if it’s possible to guillotine them all. New ones pop up everyday, guillotine today would probably work. Still need to have a better attitude about the overall problem if you want things to be better after.
You don’t understand.
This generation of elites are an unique actually. They explicitly want to wipe out humanity, have bitter resentment, and the skills/resources to do so.
It would take a very long time for more to come, we can eatablish strong anti-trust laws and try to go for a tech victory…
Democratic party is controlled opposition and many party members are friends or friendly with Republican party members, and attend the same social events.
You can believe that, and it’s also a shit take. So primary them. I’m not disagreeing that some of them are shit, but writing the whole lot off is a bad take and it’s what leads to disinterest in people who would normally vote for SOMETHING.
It would be nice if we had multiple parties, instead of two parties controlled by the same group of people and entities.
Yeah and if wishes were fishes there would be no room in the ocean for water.
Totally. I would absolutely get on board with an actual Progressive party if there was one.
The primary is no guaranteed method of change. The DNC is a private club. A primary vote could literally be 100% for a single candidate and the DNC could pick an entirely different candidate with no legal repercussions.
Totally, so who wants to kick off a new progressive party?
I think starting at the local level and changing the party from within is the most feasible approach.
Look at Mamdani, and various other progressives that have made it into their local governments.
That would be a good way for them to actually prompt a new political party.