Quote from: Devlyn on October 22, 2018, 07:51:33 AM
Sadie, your arguments are as strawman as mine. I was referencing a point in history to highlight the very fact that political parties switch at will to curry votes.... and you know it.
First Dev, please don't tell me what I think. I don't know that and I offered facts and analysis about why the Republican party isn't what you said it is (fiscally responsible). You can call my words anything you like, I disagree. Happily Susan's is a microcosm of American culture that has little to do with my world (I've been appalled at lots of political "discourse" here and I don't hang that in the site, rather that this place is populated by a broad demographic).
I live in a bubble of my own choosing, there's a reason I hardly ever venture out of Cambridge. Last time I did it was to attend a reception for artists showing work at a museum on cape cod. After the reception we went for dinner with friends and outside that establishment I was verbally harassed for only the second time I've been out dressed femme.
Trans and queer people come to the cities I'm our blue states because these are the places where we're far more likely to be treated as human.
People who are blind to orientation, race, gender, class etc hire us. We're privileged and mostly we had to work harder than others to get where we are and we reward our employers with loyalty. That is the capitalist contract without influence peddling or identity politics. We also are part if a continuous brain drain from the red states to blue.
If you choose to participate with those who have been eroding civil constitutional protections for decades, that's your choice. Puhleeze however don't waste your breath on trying to convince me without bringing actual facts to the table.
