Discussion Was trans intentionally promoted to break American democracy?
Posted 2 weeks ago by Understanderson in GenderCritical
I'm sure this has been discussed here before, but lately, I've been feeling more and more like the elevation of self ID to the political steamroller it became was purposeful. And the purpose was to leave no reservoir of sanity for people to turn to in the political landscape.
I don't mean self ID was dreamed up out of the whole cloth by cynical political operatives and deployed--just that its usefulness was observed and money thrown behind the cause, jobs in important places filled with idealogues, etc., not just because of crazy trans billionaires but because of the value this idea has to sow division and make it impossible for sane people to find a political home and organize to protect our interests.
Love us or hate us, liberals and Democrats continued trying to make evidence-based decisions for years while the right and Republicans descended into a paranoid alternate reality. It's hard not to feel like someone found the perfect wrench to throw into the liberal machinery to totally destroy it.
So yet again I am trying to remember when exactly things shifted. TRAs were a tiny group of crazies with limited political power for decades. Then something changed. What was it? The first time I noticed I was being forced to support this was when the focus of the George Floyd protests in the U.S. was wrenched away from black Americans to "trans women are women." It was not subtle. During a march, a contingent of the group abruptly started chanting "black trans lives matter." Everyone seemed confused at first, but then they went along with it, and we were off to the circus.
Turns out this sudden pivot was happening everywhere. A few days later, I read a comment somewhere from a black man way across the country who was frustrated with the shift in focus to trans people. He was torn apart by other commenters who appeared to be young and white. This was new. Typically, white liberals would not go after a black person for expressing an opinion about something that chiefly affects black people.
Incidentally, I am not saying liberals are intrinsically better, less breakable people than conservatives are--I think the liberal tendency to believe that is part of what brought us to this pass. I think conservatives just had easier handles for power brokers to grab onto. As a group, they already tend to value loyalty and group cohesion more than liberals and to be comfortable with authoritarian leadership if it means shyt they want is going to get done.
Curious to hear others' thoughts on this.
is this them realizing that going extreme left was goofy and bad response to the extreme right? Trump winning done woke them people up to stop folding to emotional cancel culture and keep it a bean?
pure mental illness
