If it’s politically expedient, Biden will not hesitate at all to throw you and your buddies to the wolves and then the NYT will have a front page story about how certain LGBTQ+ rights weren’t that important anyways.
But it’s not politically expedient though. And I don’t see that really changing. Your asking me to weigh the hypothetical future where Biden and the Dems suddenly become super anti queer with the very real possibility of a trump dictatorship criminalizing and prosecuting my partner. Like I fully understand the Dems are old boomer som removed who only are pro queer rights because it gets them votes in the moment. But the alternative I fear is an actual genocide.
Especially as a person who isn’t queer myself, I do not feel I have the right to sit by and pretend these fears are unfounded enough not to try and prevent a possible worst case scenario.
They’re already acquiescing, look at how fast Democrats went from saying Trump’s ICE/Border Patrol facilities were concentration camps to actually voting and supporting the absolute most right-wing immigration policy in recent history… and REPUBLICANS had to vote it down because Trump wants to use “illegal immigration” as a boogeyman in the 2024 election. And we already have Genocide Joe say he’s “stronger on immigration, actually” than Trump. You can’t rely on Democrats for any strong action.
If it’s politically expedient, Biden will not hesitate at all to throw you and your buddies to the wolves and then the NYT will have a front page story about how certain LGBTQ+ rights weren’t that important anyways.
But it’s not politically expedient though. And I don’t see that really changing. Your asking me to weigh the hypothetical future where Biden and the Dems suddenly become super anti queer with the very real possibility of a trump dictatorship criminalizing and prosecuting my partner. Like I fully understand the Dems are old boomer som removed who only are pro queer rights because it gets them votes in the moment. But the alternative I fear is an actual genocide.
Especially as a person who isn’t queer myself, I do not feel I have the right to sit by and pretend these fears are unfounded enough not to try and prevent a possible worst case scenario.
They’re already acquiescing, look at how fast Democrats went from saying Trump’s ICE/Border Patrol facilities were concentration camps to actually voting and supporting the absolute most right-wing immigration policy in recent history… and REPUBLICANS had to vote it down because Trump wants to use “illegal immigration” as a boogeyman in the 2024 election. And we already have Genocide Joe say he’s “stronger on immigration, actually” than Trump. You can’t rely on Democrats for any strong action.