To be fair to the democrats, they have a "credibility issue" in that Democratic voters will assume Democrats have absolutely no credibility unless they absolutely run the gauntlet on every single fucking wedge issue they believe in. Republicans, on the other hand, are all in on "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats" because Republicans don't give the first fuck.

But to be fair to the democrats, they have so much fucking low-hanging fruit it isn't even funny. Fuckin' legalize weed. Fuckin' come up with a pathway to citizenship. Fuckin' act like you're going to do something about global warming. Shit that polls consistently at like seventy, eighty percent approval and they're down here getting dragged about prison sex changes.

And I mean look.

Every 90 seconds or so, I run a nine minute pride flag at eight feet wide by five feet tall that says "you are safe here."

I employ a physician whose specialty is gender-affirming care.

We paid extra to have a consultant go through all our documentation and ensure it was gender-neutral. "Birthing person?" Yeah, that's me. No regrets.

But I played through this day before yesterday and FFS

My kid? She's twelve. One of her good friends went she/her at the age of six. There's a kid in her class that she just learned was born a girl. I'm about this. But she's also got four classmates who have changed their pronouns at least twice in the past eight weeks. One of her friends decided she goes by "all of the above" now so she (she. there's no language construction around "all of the above") can use whatever fucking bathroom she wants.

There's a very real need for very real trans people to be accepted so they can live their lives. But for the overwhelming majority of people out there, gender and its recognition has become the flag pin of the left. They don't know, they don't care, but they can beat you over the head with it if you don't thread the needle and that threading the needle has become so fucking empty and performative that I'm getting annoyed with it.

I'm coming around to the cynical conclusion that the modern hidebound Democratic party is so heavily focused on cultural bullshit issues because it means they'll never have to actually do anything. Because the last time they did anything it was Obamacare and they got slaughtered.

Because it was the only fucking thing they'd done since blocking Robert Bork.

PS. How did we go from Parvati Holcomb to this tedious shit in six short years?