Yes to all of this! We went from it not being quite politically safe for Obama to say he supported marriage equality in 2008 to marriage passing in the US in 2015 to Biden performing a gay wedding while in office and, now, flat-out openly saying trans rights are the civil rights issue of our time and appointing openly trans people to his transition team.
Like even if Biden/Harris is mainstream centrist Democrat, the mainstream centrist Democrat position has moved a pretty long way.
There are still people doubling down on the homophobia and transphobia, of course, but...there has been such a change and it blows my mind sometimes.
You can't rally voters using a form of bigotry that polls show the majority of Americans no longer believe in.
Exactly. <3 It's the same phenomenon as the corporatization of Pride merch: no, Target doesn't love us, particularly, but a teenager being able to buy a Pride shirt at a chain store in Oklahoma means that's something average people in Oklahoma think it's okay to do. Holy shit, y'know?
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Date: 2020-11-13 08:11 am (UTC)Yes to all of this! We went from it not being quite politically safe for Obama to say he supported marriage equality in 2008 to marriage passing in the US in 2015 to Biden performing a gay wedding while in office and, now, flat-out openly saying trans rights are the civil rights issue of our time and appointing openly trans people to his transition team.
Like even if Biden/Harris is mainstream centrist Democrat, the mainstream centrist Democrat position has moved a pretty long way.
There are still people doubling down on the homophobia and transphobia, of course, but...there has been such a change and it blows my mind sometimes.
You can't rally voters using a form of bigotry that polls show the majority of Americans no longer believe in.
Exactly. <3 It's the same phenomenon as the corporatization of Pride merch: no, Target doesn't love us, particularly, but a teenager being able to buy a Pride shirt at a chain store in Oklahoma means that's something average people in Oklahoma think it's okay to do. Holy shit, y'know?