So...I've seen people freaking out in multiple locations today about the future of trans rights. Apparently polling has come out showing that it's remaining unpopular with the populace post Biden, and it would arguably be a mistake for the democrats to lean into it.
Personally, i dont think trans rights is an issue that really motivates much of anything, i dont think it is an issue democrats lost 2024 over, nor do I think it's at the forefront of politics today. Still, i do think we are backsliding on the issue as we get into this "post woke" era. And a lot of people are freaking out about democrats "throwing them under the bus."
First of all, let me just say, I hate that rhetoric. The democratic party has had this hostile takeover by a progressive left that no one but the most extreme SJWs and HR ladies actually wanted, and ever since then everything revolves around these fricking social issues and omg, the underprivileged, dont you care, blah blah blah. And again, I've always been that guy who doesnt really. I mean, I'm for trans rights, even now, but I dont think we should stake the future of the party or the country on them. I dont think we should have the whole world revolve around 0.6% of the population. We should fight for them when we can, but if the issues are fundamentally unpopular, they're unpopular, and we should tiptoe around them. Why should we hand over our country to fascism over this issue? it's dumb and counterproductive. And yeah, sorry, not sorry, I do think that if needed we need to moderate on it.
At the same time, I'm going to be blunt. We won on gay marriage, before, and I think we can win on trans issues too. But rather than the stupid cult of caring stuff, we need to embrace the ethos of encouraging people to NOT care. NOT caring is how you win people over. We're a country based on freedom, and minding your own business. if we sell trans rights as a freedom issue, we can likely do better than we do when we got the annoying SJWs in charge.
If anything, I think Nick Fuentes is onto something as he crashes out and implodes over there on the republican side. For the past decade, the republicans have been the party of trolls and have won on cultural issues because of that. The democrats were annoying, over the top, self righteous, and easily triggered, and it just made us fundamentally unpopular. We won gay marriage before 2016 because...guess what? Back then we were the trolls and they were the triggered ones. And we'll win again...when we're the trolls and they're easily triggered.
We won gay marriage because people stopped caring. For a while it was "what? gays cant get married, marriage is between one man and one woman and that's what the bible says!" And us new atheist types on the left were like screw your bible, youre free to practice religion in your personal life, but keep that stuff out of government, besides, how exactly does gay marriage affect you? And...as someone who was conservative back then...that's what shifted me. I realized i had no logical argument against it outside of religion, and shifted left as a result. And then I left my religion. Imagine that.
And that was around the time that things shifted in favor of it. It was part of that Obama era zeitgeist where we were post peak christianity, but before the era of wokeness and the alt right. And we were winning....until the SJWs came around, which ended up giving tons of power and coolness factor to the alt right.
But now the alt right is becoming triggered over superbowl half time shows and crashing out. All while they obviously become authoritarian under Trump. But they're no longer cool and edgy outsiders. They ARE the establishment. And they ARE triggered. And they're losing their power.
Honestly, we win trans issues the same way. Stop getting in dumb fights over pronoun usage and getting triggered over stuff, but ask them why they care? Eventually they'll lose the argument and people will shift. because at the end of the day, people dont give AF as long as it isnt affecting them. And that's how you sell it. The biggest mistake the SJW left made was imposing their BS on everyone else, where it affected them. I called it out as dumb when they were doing it, and it's dumb now. If there's any silver lining with trump, it's hopefully that we're now peak "woke" and a new zeitgeist can form in its place. Hopefully a libertarian one on social issues, because really, i think the biggest issue of our time on social issues is how much government we want in our lives. The trump administration is an authoritarian nightmare right out of 1984 and the worst authoritarian regimes in history. The counter to it is good old american FREEDOM!
Trump loves to act like we on the left are unamerican, but if anyone is unamerican, it's trust. Nationalism isnt patriotism. The reason why, in the 2010s, I was so edgy and anti patriotism was i recognized that if we really cared about thsoe values, we wouldnt force conformity on people. And honestly? As I get older, i realize it's not that I'm not patriotic, but rather, I have a higher understanding of american values based on freedom, ACTUAL freedom. What the trumpers push is just nationalism. And nationalism is the opposite of american patriotism as I see it. A patriot will be like "I dont agree with you, but I believe in your right to say it." A nationalist will get triggered when you dont salute the flag the way they want you to.
And that's how you win the culture war, and bring people back on trans issues. Frame it as a freedom thing. Stop being triggered over stuff, and support a zeitgeist based on liberty. We do that, we win. We act as a bunch of triggered petty authoritarians, like we have the past 10 years, and we lose.
And yeah, that's my thought on this. The left has a lot to offer if it frames things the right way. The problem is they often dont because they allow these radical people who act with a religious zeal dominate the conversation and push an unpopular version of those ideas on the masses. That isn't how we win. We win when people stop giving AF. Rather than forcing people to care all the time, you want the opposite, for people to NOT care, because when they dont care, the issue becomes off the table, and generally in the direction of liberty.
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