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Hey Progressives, let's waste ALL our time and political capital on something that affects a dozen or so people in the entire country, and not push for real change that could affect literally millions of people in this country.
This is how the Left constantly loses support. No ill will to any group, but for fucks sakes pick and choose your battles here. If you showed even 1/2 as much effort in this issue, as you do in getting people universal healthcare or parental leave or a ton of other topics that affect everyone, we'd actually have some of these things already.
People are going to claim We CaN FoCuS oN MoRe ThAn OnE ThInG, but history shows otherwise. The Left in the US can't focus on anything long enough to get it passed, and then they'll jump to the new "atrocity" for a few months. Contrast that with how the Right focuses in on a handful of issues and they do it over years and decades. The Left doesn't have that kind of attention span.
I fully get that on a site like this, my post is going to fall on deaf ears. It's not that I wish bad things to anyone but focus on the masses first. You have to, or you will erode your support.
Progressives aren't the ones trying to make it illegal to be trans or arrest parents for supporting their trans child. Why should we sit on our asses and watch people's rights be stripped away because you don't think it's enough people to protect? You feel the same way about murder? "They only murdered a dozen people, we have bigger things to worry about."