Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

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    I think it is important to not satisfy yourself with what you have for fear of it getting worse. I also think it’s telling that you consider the Democratic Party merely imperfect, like your saucy uncle at the BBQ, and not evil, like a genocidal institution of white supremacy and global capitalist imperialism. Convenient that it is also up to the moral purity of the masses to prevent that violence as well, since that frees us of any interrogation into the inevitability of these systemic forces.

    Guess the socioeconomic classes of those “founders,” and whether the current state of affairs in any way contradicts their beliefs in slavery as a necessary evil to maintain the composition of liberalism’s righteousness, or their willfullness to remove tyrranical rulers when they themselves began dismissing legal institutions within fifty years of establishing them (no, not to make them better, but to commit genocide against indigenous nations despite court rulings).

    I wish this was just imperfect, but the Democratic Party is an existential threat not only to the vulnerable groups they purportedly advocate for, but all life on this planet.The gravity of that is unfortunately too heavy to satisfy ourselves with, “not everyone is perfect.” I can’t help but wonder if you’re among the people who have been targetted by their violence their entire lives, and whether you even defer to those people when forming your stance on this institution.

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      I mean, your saucy uncle is also a tool for geanocide, imperialism, and white supremacy. So am I. So are you it you live in…most of the west. If you are American, like me, you have to live in this country.

      Not all of us are willing to opt out and move to a commune. Last I looked there were only like, 2 such communes in the US. So it eould really be starting a commune.

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        “Be mildly critical of the system I have limited power over? I might as well fucking drop my entire life.”

        think I found a starting point for you. Why is that what you arrived at?

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      Shit like this is how republicans win the midterms and more of my friends die.

      I will be proudly voting democratic and voting in the primaries too.

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        Your friends died from criticisms of liberalism, huh, rough stuff. Welcome to the “America killed my friends,” club, we get dickhead libs who can’t do anything without feeling righteous a lot now.

        As I said in my original comment, some people have to vote Dems, since part of their evil is holding vulnerable groups hostage. If you can’t do that without it also being the morally pure thing to do, I don’t think you’re qualified to be proud of that decision. We are all forced to be accessories to this system, but you’re choosing to like it.

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          No they’re getting killed by ice and losing rights because people thought voting Trump was better then Harris because of the shit people like you say.

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            That so? If there’s that many people that critical of this system, you’d think they’d have more of an effect than selectively influencing a single voterbase. How strange.

            If I was killed by the state, I’d hardly want my friends to respond by using my death to defend the state.