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My opinion on this matter is going to be unpopular one but here goes: I firmly believe that Left wing and Democrats failed in these elections because of Transgender push in Social Media / Movies / Series / Ads and basically everywhere it was forced down the throat of people that just got fed up. Republicans and MAGA capitalized on this HEAVILY and successfuly leveraged this issue to the extreme for their benefit.
Bigotry usually is on lemmy.
If your defining reason you didn't vote for them was their position that trans people have rights, then you need to re-examine your values.
Not american, I would vote for democrats though
I disagree. One, because it isn't forced down anyone's throats as long as you don't live in a fucking Fox News bubble. Two, because Democrats did extremely little to actually protect trans children during the election. And three, Republicans didn't gain votes; Democrats just lost them.
It's a lot easier to argue that people thought that the Democrats weren't doing enough to address problems that existed now or that they didn't push issues that mattered to people, like abortion. Because they took very few real stances except the ones that seemed popular to everyone, but they also failed to get that message out a lot of the time because of very dumb actions on their part.
You're right about the unpopular.
The left and centrist dgaf, the right really care, but they were already voting.
Yeah bcz identity politics is all they have to protect their deep pocket donors. They need to be doing what Bernie is doing right now.