Qwiss! wrote:
If you look at Trumps interviews regarding gay rights, abortion, etc its clear before he needed to win votes from evangelicals he was pretty progressive. He flipped to appease those people and brought that psycho Pence in to seal the deal. I do think he will follow through though, especially with the house and senate being on side.
It's not his personal beliefs I'm worried about though, it's what he'll do to appease the twats who voted for him. Trump would claim tomorrow that he has never suggested building a wall between Mexico and Texas if he thought he'd win half a point approval rating by doing so, and that makes him extraordinary dangerous. Any normal candidate would be concerned about their political legacy if nothing else and try to strike up some form of balance. Trump has no such qualms.
We had a discussion a few months ago on OMIT where certain people felt it was 'sloganeering and virtue signaling' to criticise an LGBT-progressive republican like Trump for catering to Christian extremists two days after the deadliest attack on LGBT people in American history. This would perhaps be a good time for them to reevaluate their stance. Case in point, he has now appointed Kenneth Blackwell to lead his domestic transition team:
Trump himself has more or less confirmed that marriage equality and anti-discrimination bills are going to be gone the moment he takes office, and Pence's views on anyone who isn't straight and Christian are well-documented. I can't wait to see how much good this administration is going to do for the LGBT community, where people have already started killing themselves in despair.
Qwiss! wrote:
Anyone who denies rape culture is real when a man who openly brags about sexually assaulting women has won the Presidency of the US is clearly a moron.
There are worse things than people denying that rape culture is real though, such as half the country thinking it's not that big of a deal.
At least the bigots used to have some form of shame and restraint, because they knew that their views weren't socially accepted. But now, with a rapist, outspokenly racist clown as president they think it's a free-for-all, and they come crawling out of the woodwork. Once that kind of spirit gains traction it's very hard to put a stop to. The Klan is going to have a better year in 2017 than they've had in at least half a century.
You have to admit that the shocking racist uprising we've seen in the last few days would not have been the natural reaction to any other republican candidate winning the election. It's a direct product of the hate and white supremacy that Trump has encouraged and nurtured throughout his campaign. He has normalised this behaviour.
Qwiss! wrote:
The left has needed a kick up the arse for a long time. Its time to really start fighting these hate filled bigots and not just talk about it.
Aye, aside from Bernie Sanders there hasn't been a prominent politician in America during my lifetime that could realistically be placed anywhere near the left side of the political scale. There are only right-wing extremists and right-wing moderates. I'd argue this is a failure of American democracy rather than a particular failure of the democratic party though. The system was extreme off the bat. The country itself has needed to change for a long time to keep up with the rest of the world, and it just hasn't happened.
