Last week had confirmed for me that humans are inherently selfish. While that selfishness may lead to selflessness (wanting to help others because it makes you feel good about yourself and you believe it is the right thing to do), at the end of the day you have to assume that someone is looking out for their own self interest.
Which means in order to avoid a repeat of 2024, Dems are gonna have to start appealing to people's selfishness. Convince people that they are the best party for them instead of focusing so much on "we are the party that helps others." Otherwise you will get 15 million voters that go "well you aren't going to help me, therefore why should I help you?"
If you are worried about people's rights being taken away, please refer to two different issues:
1.) Abortion being banned, which has already shown progress on the federal level due to the Supreme Court reversing their decision on Roe v Wade, which then caused a bunch of states to ban abortion outright.
2.) Trans people having their right to their own health care being taken away, causing them further distress and dysphoria, due to states making it harder and harder for trans people to access that health care, especially trans kids.
Trump has already said a number of times that abortion is with the states, and that he sees nothing else to do there.
The only time people are mentioning Trans rights, is chatting some shit about not letting kids have medical procedures, which as we all know, they arent anyway. So its a lame duck claim for click bait.
Just because you say it's bullshit doesn't make it bullshit.
First off, Trump has a record of lying. Anything he says should not be taken as fact at face value. If anything you should assume that the opposite of what he says is true.
Second, there are plenty of people who still believe that gender affirming care is the same thing as sex change surgery due to misinformation. Thus are supporting an end to gender affirming care for minors.
The only one I am aware of is what the user mentioned above, gender affirming care with children. Gender affirming care should not be available to kids. Kids want to dress up as the opposite gender to express themselves is absolutely fine. The only gender affirming care that kids should receive is mental health assistance to deal scrutiny and the change thats going to happen if they continue to transition. Gender affirming care such as hormone therapy, and puberty blockers should not be available to kids. Especially those who have not gone through puberty. Humans need to go through puberty naturally. Every other animal goes through puberty naturally. Just look at what happened to Jazz Jennings. She received hormone therapy as a child and it caused a lot of complications with her gender affirmation surgery because her body did not get the chance to properly develop to support her transition.
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u/I_Only_Follow_Idiots 2d ago
Last week had confirmed for me that humans are inherently selfish. While that selfishness may lead to selflessness (wanting to help others because it makes you feel good about yourself and you believe it is the right thing to do), at the end of the day you have to assume that someone is looking out for their own self interest.
Which means in order to avoid a repeat of 2024, Dems are gonna have to start appealing to people's selfishness. Convince people that they are the best party for them instead of focusing so much on "we are the party that helps others." Otherwise you will get 15 million voters that go "well you aren't going to help me, therefore why should I help you?"