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Nazi flags can fly in Utah school, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says (www.sltrib.com)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This isn’t just symbolic though, it is the normalization of “confederates and nazis good, gay people bad”. It is the indoctrination of children of false information and rewritten history. It is erasure. It is a form of oppression.

I get all that.

Not enough people care, and it's because there are bigger problems affecting the majority's lives. That's what liberals need to focus on if they want to have a chance at reversing this. If you want a democracy, you have to worry about the issues affecting the majority at some point and right now they're too busy figuring out how to actually live to care about trans people being mentioned on a sign.

[+] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They certainly did, but that's not why they won.

They broadened their coalition because they focused on the economic message. like Clinton in the 90's. Democrats spent an entire campaign telling their voter base to be joyful about being poorer.

Purely from a standard of living and economic standpoint, he’s going to make lives worse for so many people that aren’t his billionaire cronies.

Probably, but the problem is, people just lived through four years of their lives being made substantially worse by Dems and their billionaire cronies, and when pressed, Kamala refused to own it and said publicly that there's nothing she'd do differently. That gets you votes flipping to Republican and millions of former voters who opted not to miss a badly-needed day's pay.