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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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very much unlike Democrats, who only seem to want to advocate for the trans people and the Black people and the lawbreaking illegal immigrants.

To be fair, you left out a couple.

“Women”, for instance, won are seeing their rights (reproductive and otherwise) rolled back with astonishing speed. Which party is doing that?

“Disabled”, for instance, whose supports and abilities to navigate the non-disabled world are being threatened by the rollback of hard-won regulations.

“Veterans”, for instance, whose funding is being cut for medical and psychological problems developed during (and often because of) military service.

“Union members” who, perversely, ignored the threat to their livelihoods in favor of the rah-rah Archie Bunker rhetoric that triggers them.

“Poor”, who are bound to suffer with the kinds of cutbacks in aid and medical help that are being proposed and implemented.

“And yes, Immigrants”, who face rampant discrimination whether they arrived legally or not, and if illegal have no path to citizenship (unless they are millionaires) in spite of the rhetoric that “they should come here legally.”

I do acknowledge that the Republicans have made it SEEM as though “trans” is the top Democratic objective, but that is only because they have mastered the dark art of propaganda, convincing millions of mindless robotrons that it is the #1 issue in the nation. We have seen what other “populists” have managed with their governments: in Britain, in Italy, in Israel, in so many other countries. It’s always “us against them”, with the “them” being some despised minority that can’t effectively put up a propaganda battle on the same terms, whether it’s “immigrants” or “Jews” or “Palestinians” or “EU elites” or whoever.

“Don’t look here, look over there!” And people keep falling for it. Know anybody like that?
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