So, one positive thing about Harris is that she has a solid record on trans rights that goes beyond pithy statements.
In her role as DA in San Francisco, she worked to abolish the gay and trans panic defense. As AG, she made it happen in California in 2014. The state was the first to ban it.
Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!"
Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric
Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them.
I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
Crazy I now live in a country where six FedSoc assholes have codified Nixon's "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" assertion into actual practice.
