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If you tell Americans outside cosmopolitan cities they must declare themselves publicly as “cis het” or else they’re a bigot

Nothing even close to that is happening and you’d have to be willfully ignorant to pretend otherwise

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In polls and focus groups, the voters themselves say otherwise.

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Idiots thinking that because influencers tell them to feel that way =/= it happening, because it’s not

People are choosing to use those terms and spots for them are being added to things, this isn’t the same as “use them or you’re a bigot” at all and you know it

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IIRC a quarter of the Republican ad spending was on that single ad, “The Democrats are for ‘they/them’, Trump is for YOU”. It was that effective.

I don’t care much who is right morally. America’s culture wars are almost an irrelevance to me as a foreigner. I care because it’s skewing American elections. Trump is about to pull out of the climate accord and it will be partly because of this. That is just a crazy situation. You guys need to turn down the temperature. On the Democrat side that means less moralizing and hectoring because it is very visibly driving the other side crazy. It’s not worth it.

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With all due respect, I live in the Midwest and run with some rather blue-collar people in a completely blue, large city.

Everyone feels as though the Democrats have stopped listening to them and have been yelling at them for the last 10 years.

And just the mere fact that you are probably going to have the knee jerk reaction and call me an ignorant bigot is part of the problem.

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Everyone feels as though the Democrats have stopped listening to them and have been yelling at them for the last 10 years.

Feel all they want, its not true not is what was being discussed actually even happening, but go off

And just the mere fact that you are probably going to have the knee jerk reaction and call me an ignorant bigot is part of the problem.

Pre-defending yourself just shows you know you’re full of it

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There you go not listening again, even to the point of saying what people are experiencing isn’t happening.

So let’s say it’s not happening. Why do so many people feel that way?

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