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Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
Horrific.
Really who are you voting for and who do you think will win?
Do you think your life and those in Iowa, the US and around the world will be better or worse overall if he wins or his republican opponent does?
Do you honestly think the republican winning is better?
You can honestly say more lives will be ruined by him than his opponent?
The time to vote for a better dem was the primaries
Now you are stuck with bad and horrible options
I know my life will be worse if Josh Turek succeeds in pushing the rest of the Democrats to the right on trans rights; a vote for Josh Turek is a vote for Democrats to adopt anti-trans rhetoric and policies. The Party will be changed by his victory, but if he loses they’ll think twice about nominating someone like him and that has an effect in 2028. Better to lose one seat than to potentially elect even more anti-trans Democrats in the future by giving them more of a foothold in the party.
The Democrats you vote for are the Democratic Party you are voting for, and when you elect bad Democrats you get a bad party.
Oh, forgot to say who I’m voting for: I’m writing in Zach Wahls, the pro-trans runner up in this primary. That gets recorded by the Party, just like wins and losses do, and they take it into account for future campaigns when they try to figure out what went wrong.
Delusional ml user, who probably doesn’t even live in the US trying to convince people not to vote D (and even worse, says to vote R in Iowa). What complete nonsense.
Guess what? With more Democrats in the House and Senate, the majority leadership switches, and the more comfortable the lead, the more the DSA folks in Congress can push.
With more transphobic Democrats in the House and Senate they won’t work with the DSA to do fucking anything, they’ll reach across the isle to work with Republicans to kill me.
You think this guy is DSA?
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I’m like 100% sure they were talking about Turek.
I may have misread.
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Part of the reason I’m a “Delusional ml user” is because they would do something like this.
Not who I’m referring to.
Sorry, my bad.
Where did I say that? He’s absolutely not DSA and his anti-trans rhetoric is terrible.
Then why on earth would you think this guy, who is against everything the DSA stands for, would increase the DSA’s power?
Do you understand how majority vs minority parties and leadership work in Congress? As much of an asshole as this guy is, he’s STILL better than a Republican in the same position.
What does that have to do with your assertion that electing this person will increase the DSA power?
Ok, what is your suggestion in this instance? You seem to think this is a black and white issue, so what would you do here?
You don’t think him losing to someone even further right won’t push the party more right chasing those voters? That’s how is played out for decades
You are okay with him losing? You didn’t answer my other questions
I see a whole bunch of DSA and DSA-adjacent candidates winning recently because of right-wing victories.
You honestly think having the republican win will be better for you?
Honestly now?
I get that they are a shit person to have to vote for, but the other option is even worse, and guess what, wants to hurt even more people.
Sadly your choices are terrible and instead of progress vs hatred you have hate and evil to vote for as your options.
But don’t let evil win. That’s 4 years of even worse treatment. Spend those 4 changing his mind about Trans rights instead of letting someone win who cares even less about your life or others.
I think having a Republican win:
Tells Democrats that Josh Turek was the wrong choice, so they don’t try to emulate his campaign in other races.
Ensures that Josh Turek’s influence on the Democratic Party is limited-to-nonexistent, so he can’t embed his beliefs into the party and pull it to the right.
Gives progressives an easier chance in the next primaries, because there’s no incumbent to unseat.
The Democrats we vote for are the Democratic Party we are voting for - when we vote for Josh Turek or John Fetterman and types like them, we are making the party more like them. If Josh Turek wins this election, we’ll have more Josh Tureks to vote for in 2028.
So you are good with even more suffering for 4 years when the republican wins instead. And also all the suffering Trans people will have from them as well. And gay people and everyone else non straight whites?
Because you think them losing will push the party left, even though the winner is farther and farther right each election and still winning that way.
I’ve watched the parties go farther right for decades and 3rd party voting never works. The dems losing by a few percent pushes them to the right who voted more than the left who didn’t or went 3rd party.
For me and other trans people, there isn’t really much of a difference between electing Josh Turek or the Republican. They both support our genocide and will vote for legislation designed to bring about our physical end. I won’t vote for my genocide.
And the Democrats go farther to the right because they’re chasing Republican votes, because that’s all they can see in the election results. That’s why I’m not sitting the election out and I’m not voting for the Republican. They can look at that and see “Well if we didn’t nominate a genocidal freak, we could have had that vote.”
Elections aren’t just going farther to the right either. Like I said, democratic socialists are getting elected in response to the rightward shift, you can’t just ignore that.
They are in places that are having left shifts, usually because they are already left leaning. And saying he wants a genocide is insane.
Fact is you have two real choices because of how elections work
Fact is if you don’t push for the lesser, even going as far as to push people to not vote for them, you are actively pushing for the worse person to win
Fact is the more dems that win, the more power the whole party gets. That means more progressives have real power to change and can sway the more right members of the party.
Fact is anyone pushing “they are the same” and not voting are responsible for the bad caused by the right winning more and more and helping to push their Nazi agenda.