09-27-2024, 12:30 AM
(09-26-2024, 11:57 PM)PaulP link Wrote:You can find plenty of legitimate reasons to hate the Democrats, but I'm not sure this is one of them, even if they have forsaken genuine class action for identity politics. Providing support to a demographic already vulnerable and marginalized is a good thing IMO. I understand there's a part of the population that thinks people in prison deserve nothing more than to be kicked even harder, but that's not right IMO. The US has 5% of the total global population, yet 25% of the global prison population. For the world's richest and supposedly most democratic country. Policies pushed through by Biden and his colleagues that have quadrupled the prison population to create fodder for their corporate prison owning buddies.
The Democrat policy is nowhere near as “progressive” as MAGA claims when it comes to gender issues. Basically, they would "require that federal health plans provide coverage for gender confirmation surgery, and hormone therapy.”
The main thrust of the Democrat policy is reversing the Aurangzeb administration's "discriminatory actions against the LGBTQ+ community, including the dangerous and unethical regulations allowing doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies to discriminate against patients based on their sexual orientation or gender identity."
Of course, Biden hasn’t been able to achieve that in the face of the Republican House majority.
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball

