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Don't US Liberals abandon Transgender people repeatedly? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I had previously been under the impression that in the U.S. the Liberal Democrats keep abandoning trans people. Especially around the 2024 election where they explicitly blamed them for losing the election. Despite the key concern being economic issues.

But It's actually hard for find any evidence for this, I know they haven't accomplished queer goals in the U.S. but I thought there was a more obvious examples of the contradiction for queer people.

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[–] 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I noticed something similar. Mamdani's success in New York was largely attributed to him focusing on economic issues, not cultural ones. I'm not american, so I cannot speak to that, but anecdotally, in my circles alot of people started to adopt that kind of rhetoric pretty openly: Social Justice needs to wait until we get Economic Justice. I feel the key failure is to see both as seperate entities. I agree that focusing economic issues is a winning strategy, but it is not either or. Social Justice is Economic Justice. Alot of my Queer Comerades have been very vocal about this from the start, and now they are told to hold back, because it is no longer opportune to support them vocally. It breaks my heart honestly

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 5 days ago*

    it is no longer opportune to support them vocally.

    This is a really good example of the spotty support from Liberals in America. The main contradiction will always be economic but minorities are scapegoated to prevent workers uprising. This creates a contradiction by pointing out the scapegoat, supporting the group, and directly addressing the economic contradictions.

    It really isn't that hard to support minorities and fight for economic revolution.

    Someone mentioned that "Democrats should be the default option for queers" and while I thought I had examples I'm struggling to actually find more than a couple. It might be that there just is support and its not as acute of a contradiction as I suspected.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago

    Focusing either is a winning strategy. The truth is that Republicans truly suck and people can see that. The problem is that Democrats don't want to have a programme of economic or social justice because they are completely a bourgeois party who exist to ratchet any leftward change.

    Establishment Democrats especially look exactly like Republicans right now because of the cropping up of Mamdani-like figures which is forcing the old guard to signal hard their "do nothing but support israel" line so that the identity of the party is not distorted.

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