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Quiet Em

(1,807 posts) Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:43 AM 17 hrs ago

Pritzker balances messaging as some Dems encourage party to avoid LGBTQ issues

Pritzker’s views are mainstream in the Democrat Party, University of Illinois Springfield political science professor Jason Pierceson said, who specializes on the politics of gender and sexuality. He said it’s Newsom and Emanuel who are trying to carve a more contrarian lane.

“I think it’s less that Pritzker is carving out a lane than about embracing trans rights and LGBTQ rights,” he said in an interview.

“There’s a lot of intensity by activists, particularly on the right against trans rights, but I’m not sure that translates into votes for the median voter or the independent voter,” Pierceson said.

Pierceson said transgender rights get a lot of attention in campaigns, but voters aren’t making final decisions based only on the issue. That could mean Newsom and Emanuel are calling for an overcorrection to the Democrat platform.

“There’s a tendency I think in the professional political class to overestimate the conservatism of voters and to always argue that the most conversative position will be the most politically potent and powerful position,” Pierceson said.

https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzker-balances-messaging-as-some-dems-encourage-party-to-avoid-lgbtq-issues/

Govs. Pritzker and Walz are good at this. You can have a strong economic message without stepping all over the civil and human rights of others. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

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Pritzker balances messaging as some Dems encourage party to avoid LGBTQ issues (Original Post) Quiet Em 17 hrs ago OP

Rights are only 'rights'; when they are reognized as such... Moostache 17 hrs ago #1

Well said, Moostache Quiet Em 17 hrs ago #2

... Solly Mack 17 hrs ago #3

I agree we should not be ambivalent about human rights. Defend them to the end. Walleye 16 hrs ago #4

Defending human rights should be the most popular! Clouds Passing 16 hrs ago #5

Moostache

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1. Rights are only 'rights'; when they are reognized as such...

Reply to Quiet Em (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:50 AM

17 hrs ago

You cannot be half-for-trans rights any more than you can be half-pregnant or half-not-for-racism.

The message is simple and should not be hard to understand - "Human rights are non-negotiable and attempts to infringe on them are always non-starters." To attempt to define some one's intrinsic human rights by coloring the discussion in any way is anathema, Period.

This should not be hard to understand.

The law is a defensive weapon only - meant to protect us NOT to allow us to harm others due to opinions or an inability to recognize that differences abound and civil society demands we respect that basic tenet.

It is insulting to consider selling out any group of marginalized or villified human beings for contemporaneous political advantage. If I wanted to support a political party that is fine with that, I'd register as a Republican and get to wallowing in the slop with the other pigs.