USA 2024 presidential election

Sorry but to say the Democrats have been too focused on transgender issues, when the right wing have been demonizing that community constantly for years is ridiculous. The Democrats position, if one can call it that, is of basic respect and compassion. If that's an issue for people, it tells you all you need to know of that quality of their character.

People being compassionate are the problem. I could back to the 60s and hear the same sort of complaints about the civil rights movement, or to the 70s/ 80s about gay rights.

Equality feels like oppression to those in power.

People feel poorer because they are.

This is true. The problem, is that they have voted to make themselves even poorer.

The Trump economic policies are inflationary. All raw materials that are not produced in the US, will go up in price. All finished products produced outside America will increase in price.

The stock market might go up, but the purchasing power of ordinary americans will go down, the USD will lose value if global trade switches away from America because Trump's plan will force every other country to bypass the american economy.

The only people who ever talk about trans issues, are right wing populists engaging in the bog standard 'moral panic'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

There are no trans people under your bed trying to take your daughters olympic gold medal or place on the local gaa team

Sorry, I meant politicians and media.

Right wing populists talk about Trans people, then ordinary people talk about Trans people because the right wing populist they are listening to highlighted that issue.

Thats what the 'moral panic' is.

The right wing populist wants to distract the public by finding a 'bogey man'. They say 'The left want your children to be raped by Trans people'. The left respond by saying 'What are you talking about, we never said that!'

and the message received by the 'ordinary people' is that left wing people won't stop supporting Trans rights

If you don't believe me, look at all of your social media 'mentions' of these key words. I guarantee you, the vast majority of the times Trans rights have been pushed into your social media feeds, have been by people complaining that the liberals only ever want to talk about 'woke' issues.

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Too many people feel comfortable in expressing their hateful opinions, and they ought to be made feel ashamed for it. Never apologize for calling out fascists and racists, and if you're feeling targeted or made feel embarrassed, then perhaps you deserve it

Generally anything that Trump and his acolytes talk about is a good example, if you're looking for some.

Sorry but no. You can't be for a part of Trump's "ideas", as justification for voting for him, and try to ignore the rest. He stands explicitly for fascism, racism, and Christian Nationalism. That's not even touching on him and his personal conduct. There's no equivocating out of that.

Why do you think fascism starts with a leader planning invading armies?

There's many steps along the way, that's one of the last few.

And it's nonsense to equate a marketing campaign with a Trump advisor at a Trump rally 10 days before the election screaming about America for Americans only. A ludicrous dismissal of objective reality.

Only 10-15% of Germans were considered committed nazis when Hitler took the reins. You don’t have to believe in an ideology to support it. And you can’t wash your hands of it if the warning turn out to be true. And extremism usually only has a really small minority of people who truly follow it, they need only convince enough moderates to follow for them to enact their agenda.

I really hope the people smugly dismissing any talk of “hysterical nonsense on nazis and fascists or extremist Trump ”’are right. But I suspect many of you haven’t really objectively reflected beyond “ha, dems and their preaching getting a good drubbing is so sweet”.

It’s the same with populism around Europe. Voters are gonna get what they deserve, the warnings are there. Turkeys voting for Christmas , gobble gobble make sure you base me well before you slap on the slow cook setting.

It’s the same with populism around Europe. Voters are gonna get what they deserve, the warnings are there. Turkeys voting for Christmas , gobble gobble make sure you base me well before you slap on the slow cook setting.

100% this is the case. France just avoided in their last elections, but I suspect the German elections next year are going to be a step in the dark direction.

8 yrs after a Brexit vote that has nearly collapsed their economy. Who's the British politician with the most wind in their sails? Nigel Farage