RE: AOC wonders what the Democrats can do to not fucking fail.

( Lilith )
Democrats just need to quietly drop the T. Like how they quietly dropped peace. Like how they quietly dropped labor unions. And age discrimination.

It seems to me that they have NO problem whatsoever dropping issues that are inconvenient to their donors. It's the issues that are unpopular at the polls they insist on dragging us down with.

( Veneficca )
This is where the forced teaming with LGB really hurts, because it's so hard to decouple now and so any attempt to talk about trans gets branded as homophobia or good old "anti-LGBTQ." I noticed that even snarky sites that make fun of trans anything got upset with Mace and branded her as "hating queer folk." Which immediately shut down all discussion of the real issue.

AOC knows her brand is being young and progressive so it's going to be impossible for her to go too far off script. All these "let's have hard discussions about where Dems go wrong" already have preset topics in place.

That said... I do think behind the scenes a few politicians understand. I just don't know how much the messaging will change. The best thing we can do is be vocal online and IRL to show that people are sick of this toxic shitshow.

( CharliXX )
I have no idea what it's like to be AOC. She's been a politician for so long she is part of "the swamp" but the lefty swamp of victim hierarchy thinking which puts a regular working joe of any color, sex or orientation as privileged over trans people (including rich perverts like Jamie Lee Curtis' son) or people from war torn countries a million miles away (including when those people commit literal atrocities and upload themselves to their victims' facebook doing it), and therefore unworthy of sympathy and policy. I genuinely doubt she will ever come around. We need new blood and even though Nancy Mace is on the right, I hope her bravery will inspire more left wing oriented women to become champions for reality. I think it's a real damn vote winner.

( Hollyhock )
I think that she knows trandgenderism is a massive problem for her political party, but she also knows how even she can be cancelled. It's as plausible that she's scared as it's plausible she doesn't get it, but I'm not sure.