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Gay AF, big fan of smut and music, probably been on the internet longer than you've been alive, definitely a curmudgeon. He/him/whatever, almost 50.
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If you're making less than a cool million a year, you're as likely to be excluded from having a political voice as the poor homeless person begging for nickles on the street corner. We now have, not only a massive ideological civil war to fight, but a class war too.
And, you're making a very interesting assumption in the background about your privilege as an old white dude. That somehow you'll be find no matter which party is in control. Here's the thing, you're not of the right party most likely as you're not in the most important one of all "Rich".
Lets be daring and elect another minority person to president cause I'll tell ya now, the way it's going, we're just gonna be run into the ground, face first, while all the old white dudes sit on our backs and push downward as that keeps them in power.
When your entire country is based on exclusionary power brokering politics amongst a single bloc that wishes to concentrate, consolidate, and preserve power, that's a problem for everyone but that group. And that's where we are right now. So yeah, down with the old white dudes...
by a bunch of old white dudes. And look where we are. 1945 Germany. That's NOT good. Perhaps if we had less powerhungry old white dudes in charge, we might be in less deep shit than we are right now. Maybe a female minority president is just what this country needs. Not trump, biden, or hillary.
Once again, you're incorrectly assuming things. Do you think republicans are .. Diverse? Cause if so, hoo do I have news for you. Do I think there are lefties that don't want old white dudes in power anymore. Yep, I'm one of 'em. Why? Because for 99.9% of American history we've been run...
While Dems may not enjoy a lot of white hetero male orthodoxy, they at least get a place at the table because diversity isn't a dirty word. So, ask yourself, why do you think it is?
God forbid someone gets on the ballot that's even a hint of gay, trans, lesbian, or black. They'll be slaughtered by every republican out there. Why? Because they're the party of total intolerance. Republicans equate diversity with power loss and dilution of white hetero ethos (whatever that is).
And he had a D next to his name on the ballot. He'd lose. Now, imagine trying to get someone elected here that's any sort of minority and running as a Dem for any state level office. They'll fail strictly because of party affiliation. Why? Because every redneck won't have it.
Well, only to a certain demographic of voters yes. Diversity = inclusiveness. That's the point. Listening to all voices in equal measure, even if they're dissonant. Now, I can say though, with certainty, that if a boring old white dude who talks about equality were running for Texas governor...
But, the era of "small town friendly rednecks", or at least the myth of that (and yes it really was just a myth), has passed. Preaching about good guys with fishing poles who just want to drink a beer, is a fisherman's tale that only white hetero people get to believe in anymore.
And just so you know, I'm very aware of Talarico, I live in Texas. Not that I want to thanks to our MAGAfied state government. But I can't afford to leave either as moving is expensive. So, please, I don't need the insight into my state's politics, I live them every day without choice or relief.
I had no issues growing up gay in a redneck outdoors/hunting/fishing state because back then nobody cared. But they do now and that's the issue. I didn't care back then if you were a republican, but I have to now because it's the difference between friend or foe.
I moved to state number 2 for work and holy shit the entire government wanted to know who I was having sex with and so do all the little bullshit no name towns around where I live. But now, with the rise of MAGA, I can't go home either as they're now all about who I sleep with in my bed.
So, allow me to show my roots a bit. I grew up in a deep red state with hunting, fishing, and outdoorsmanship. I moved to a deep red state with the same. In state 1, nobody cared, left me alone mostly, and I could be a queer fucker who liked to creek fish all day long.
But here's the fun part, that government will include old straight white dudes because *gasp* they're part of the diverse body of people that make up this country and they deserve EQUAL representation, but not disproportionate representation, which is what we have now.
That's not the statement though that's being made, at least not by most normal lefties. What IS being said is that old, white hetero males have far too much power and control and need deposing to make way for a government that represents we the people in all our diversity. That's what's being said.
Trying to talk about Dem/Lefty ideals such as "healthcare for all" gets demonized as a "term" because that means that "them illegal immigrants" get helped out too. There's no conversation, unless it's diluted to meaninglessness, without "Terms" that the center/far right won't like.
I get it, terms and words hold power, but how are we supposed to have conversations without using TERMS? The second I say "Trans rights" that's a TERM. The second I say "PoC" that's a "TERM". "Immigrant" is a TERM. Hell "Inclusiveness" is a "TERM".
Hold your own fully accountable, police your ranks, kick out the assholes that tarnish your good name, and don't let them come back just because they say they're no longer racist, misogynistic, LGBTQ phobic shitheels, and then we can talk about reintegration.
enough of them are those things that it's hard to make the distinguishment. "American Christian" may as well get washed out along with cops and ice. ACAB may as well be "American Christians Are Bastards". And I'll say the same thing to American Christians that I'll say to the cops...
"American Christian" is now "Evangelical" and "MAGA" and "Racist", "Sexist", "homophobic", "transphobic" etc. It's become shorthand/coded for all those "conservative christian values". Of course Dems ignore and push out that group to the extent they do. Even if some amount aren't all those things...
Well, the issue here is a lot of bad apples spoiling the barrel. Evangelicals/Southern Baptists have pretty much ruined the general "American Christian" concept. I've no beef with Catholics, Protestants, Lutherans etc. But if you tell me you're "Christian" I'm going to steer clear of you.
It's a far sight better though than the opposition who would rather see me killed, exiled, stripped of my rights, and made into a social pariah. I'm 100% going to side, despite its' flaws, with the party that doesn't want to see me dead even if its' got bad baggage. But at least it's not nazis!
I don't WANT identity politics to be the norm. But when my identity is now intimately tied with politics I don't have the luxury of saying no. My healthcare, my freedoms, my desire to not get thrown into an encampment for gays, all reside with one party who sees me as a liability, not an asset.